Fram

Fram was the polar exploration ship designed by Colin Archer for Fridtjof Nansen and launched in 1892, with a rounded hull built to be lifted rather than crushed by pack ice. Nansen deliberately froze her into the Arctic ice in 1893 to drift across the polar basin, and she later carried Otto Sverdrup’s Arctic survey and Roald Amundsen’s expedition to Antarctica for his 1911 conquest of the South Pole. She holds records for the farthest north and south reached by a wooden ship and is preserved at the Fram Museum in Oslo.