Posted by Pam Adams on October 30, 2006 at 21:30:54 from 134.71.192.243 user PamAdams.
I was reading West From Home, a collection of Laura Ingalls Wilder's letters from her visit to the Pan-Pacific Exhibition in 1915. One of the first things that she mentions seeing is the Gjoa , the ship which Roald Amundson took through the Northwest Passage in 1906, arriving in San Francisco a few months after the earthquake. As with Nansen and the Fram, he was frozen in over the winter, and continued his journey when the ice thawed.
The ship remained in the US for many years, but is now home in Norway at the Norway Maritime Museum.
Amundson also had the Fram- taking her to the Antarctic.
pam