This map belonged to Roald Amundsen in his youth and still hangs today in the study at Uranienborg. Vincenz von Haardt’s map of the southern polar region is considered the first modern wall map of Antarctica and shows the expeditions that up to 1895 had explored the continent.
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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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