Raynors HCA 2019-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2019
Color printed card, 7” x 4,”, “Nansen in the Polar Regions, Germany nd. c1895. Unique printed card with three layers. When the card is “curled”, the view becomes three dimensional. VG. Nansen's Fram expedition of 1893–96 was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east–west current of the Arctic Ocean. In the face of much discouragement from other polar explorers, Nansen took his ship Fram to the New Siberian Islands in the eastern Arctic Ocean, froze her into the pack ice, and waited for the drift to carry her towards the pole. Impatient with the slow speed and erratic character of the drift, after 18 months Nansen and a chosen companion, Hjalmar Johansen, left the ship with a team of dogs and sledges and made for the pole. They did not reach it, but they achieved a record Farthest North latitude of 86°13.6'N before a long retreat over ice and water to reach sa
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