MV FRAM EXPEDITION BLOG
Monday, 30 March 2009

No more holes in the shipside!

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Another week has commenced and all the yard workers came back this morning. We can happily announce that all the holes in the shipside are...
Sunday, 29 March 2009

Lights! Lights would be good here!

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We have moved our tour all the way to Deck 7 today,where a very interesting piece of work is being done at the moment. We are innstalling...
Saturday, 28 March 2009

Propellors

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Our guided MV FRAM hull tour continous, and the topic today is propellor. Very fascina...
Friday, 27 March 2009

Our Wings!

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If anyone are curious how the stabilizors looks like. Here it is! Although they are not fully extended on this picture, you can clearly see...
Thursday, 26 March 2009

There are holes in the shipside

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The work is well underway and 2 drastic holes in the shipside is to be seen on deck 3 and one on deck 5 at the moment. It is not as dramati...
Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Astican Shipyard - Las Palmas

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Well here we are at the shipyard in Las Palmas. After a calm crossing of the Atlantic, the Spanish/Italian invasion was a fact yesterday the...
Thursday, 19 March 2009

Crossing the Equator

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Yesterday at 07:13:27 local time (GMT-1) Fram crossed the Equator at 00*00'08'' N and 029*08'723'' W. In this very...
Monday, 9 March 2009

Last sight of shore for a while.....

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When we woke up this morning we had a nice +20 C outside and at noon it reached +25 C. Not bad considering the +3 C we had when we left Ushu...
Friday, 6 March 2009

Where is everybody??

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Strange how quiet it suddenly is onboard after a hectic season with fully booked sailings!!! Guess it takes a few days for us to get used t...
Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Ushuaia - End of Season

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We arrived Ushuaia at 04:00 this morning and at 08:00 we had waved good-bye to the last group of guests. The last trip of our Antarctic seas...

Drake Passage

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Smooth sailing again. The Drake Passage looks almost as flat and calm as a bath tub! Climate Change became noticable onboard FRAM today: It...
Monday, 2 March 2009

Drake Passage

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No landings today, however, time flew quickly with bridge visits, lectures and conversations in the bar and the observation lounge. Albatros...

Deception Island and Arctowski Station

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Everybody looked a bit worried at the breakfast table: outside, the air was filled with snow flying past horizontally as we passed Neptunes ...
Sunday, 1 March 2009

Petermann Island and Port Lockroy

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Those passengers and staff who were up just after sunrise were rewarded by a magnificent passage through the Lemaire Channel. The later in t...
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The expedition team consists of lecturers and guides from various fields and backgrounds such as ornithology, mammalogy, history, and geology, ready to tackle all your questions. Together with the fabulous Fram officers and crew we make your time on board REALLY worthwhile!
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