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To the North Pole in 1893.

Dr. Fridtjof Nansen was certain that the polar icecap drifted from the Siberian Arctic to the east coast of Greenland by way of the North Pole.

To prove this thesis, he decided to sail a ship into the icecap and stay with it as it drifted, locked in the ice, across the Pole.

After constructing his ship, the Fram,

Nansen sailed it into the ice in July 1893 and by December, it was locked in the icecap.

By the spring of 1894. Nansen estimated that, by the way the ship was drifting, it would only get to within four hundred miles of the Pole, so he left it and started out with an associate to complete the journey by dog sled and kayak.

They came within 225 miles of the Pole but then had to turn back because of the immense ice ridges. Their thwarted explora- tion terminated on Franz Josef Island in the

Siberian Arctic.

But.

The Fram. meanwhile, had continued on and emerged from the ice north of Spitz- bergen on August 13th. 1896, three years after it had entered the icecap.

Nansens theory had proved correct.

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