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Roald Amundsen born July 16
Map of the Antarctic region 1895
Objectnumber: RA 0324
Length: 179.0 cm
Width: 147.5 cm
Materials: wood, paper
The map is believed to have belonged to Roald Amundsen since his youth and still hangs in his study at Uranienborg. Vincenz von Haardt’s map of the southern polar regions is considered the first modern wall map of Antarctica and shows the expeditions that had explored the continent up until 1895.
In the earliest descriptions of the collections at Uranienborg after it became a museum in 1934, it is noted that this map was also part of the Belgica expedition. Additionally, the map stands out because it has a penciled-in route corresponding to Fram’s journey to the Bay of Whales and on to South America in 1911. Hjalmar Johansen writes in his diary from the Fram expedition that they had a large map of Antarctica hanging in the chart room aboard Fram – perhaps it was this one?
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Map of Arctic Ocean
Objectnumber: RA 0309
Width: 29.2 cm
Heigth: 40.2 cm
Width frame: 32.2 cm
Height frame: 43.2 cm
Depth frame: 1.3 cm
Materials: glass, wood, paper
Fridtjof Nansen’ s bathymetric map of the Arctic Ocean that hangs in the study at Uranienborg. A line is marked with a pencil from Point Barrow across to Greenland / Spitsbergen.
