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.

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1872
Roald Amundsen born July 16
1880
Starts at Otto Andersen’s School
1886
Jens Engebreth Amundsen dies
1887 – 1889
Polar interest aroused
1890
Starting university
1893
Gustava Amundsen (née. Sahlqvist) dies
1893
Mountain ski tour with Urdahl and Holst
1894
Hunting in Arctic waters with the Magdalena
1895
Ship’s Officer’s exam
1896
Hardangervidda with Leon
1897 – 1899
Belgica expedition
1899
Cycling from Christiania to Paris
1900
Studying geomagnetism in Hamburg
1903 – 1906
Gjøa expedition
1907
Polar bears as draft animals
1907
Map of Arctic Ocean
1908
Amundsen buys Uranienborg
1909
The North Pole reached?
1910 – 1912
Fram expedition
1914
Amundsen becomes a pilot
1916 – 1917
The polar ship Maud is being built
1918
Maud expedition
1922
Nita and Camilla move in
1923
Uranienborg for sale
1924
Amundsen goes bankrupt
1925
To 88 degrees north
1926
Norge expedition
1927
Lecture tour in Japan
1928
Latham flight
1934 – 1935
Uranienborg becomes a museum
1938
Betty’s house burns down
2015
A chest full of photographs is discovered
2020
Roald Amundsen’s home goes digital