The Fram

This post is a quick one dedicated to arguably one of the most interesting polar explorers that ever was :Fridtjof Nansen. This simple post merely outlines his most famous expedition. In 1893, Nansen set out to explorer arctic ice drift. He basically built himself a boat called the FRAM(pictured above), which was later used by Roald Amundsen- the guy who first made it to the south pole. He basically froze his boat into ice drift for three years to test his theory of ice drift in the North Atlantic and Arctic. There is
a pretty cool map of his voyage here.
It must be said that he did all this during a time when it still wasn't sure if the Arctic was made of land, sea or ice. And it was his contributions that helped us learn a little bit more about the polar regions.
For more information regarding Nansen check out this website.