Framheim
Coordinates: 78 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W.
Framheim was the base camp of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1910-12) under the direction of Roald Amundsen . The geographic South Pole was reached for the first time during this expedition . The camp was named after the Fram , a ship specially built by the Norwegian ship designer Colin Archer for use in the polar zones, which the polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen had given Amundsen for his expedition. Framheim was built on the Ross Ice Shelf in the Bay of Whales and served the expedition team from January 21, 1911 to January 30, 1912 as quarters. It consisted of a wooden hut made of prefabricated parts and several tents connected to the hut by underground tunnels.
Amundsen set up several food depots during the Antarctic summer of 1911 between the 80th and 82nd parallel and then returned to the Framheim camp, where the crew survived the Antarctic winter. On October 20th, Amundsen set out with four companions, four sleds and 48 dogs from Framheim to the South Pole, which he reached on December 14th, 1911. On January 25, 1912, Amundsen and his team returned to Framheim base camp.
When Richard Evelyn Byrd's first Antarctic expedition reached the Bay of Whales in December 1928, no trace of the camp was found. Byrd had hoped to use Framheim as a base, but the landscape had changed so much since Amundsen's departure that Byrd and his men couldn't even be sure of Framheim's exact location.
Framheim (January 1911)
Location map
Outside work, tents in the background
A feast in the station
Adolf Lindstrøm in the kitchen
Olav Bjaaland doing repair work in the workshop
Oscar wisting in the fuel store
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See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Eugene Rodgers: Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's first Expedition to Antarctica . 1st edition. United States Naval Institute, Annapolis 1990, ISBN 0-87021-022-X , pp. 64-66 .
