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Crew of MAUD - Captain Roald Amundsen polar expedition – Historic Print

Crew of MAUD - Captain Roald Amundsen polar expedition, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Crew of MAUD - Captain Roald Amundsen polar expedition, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Crew of MAUD - Captain Roald Amundsen polar expedition

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Few crew portraits from Roald Amundsen's Arctic voyage aboard the *Maud* have survived in such a direct form, and this one shows the men who sailed the ship rather than the scenery around it. The *Maud* was built to be lifted by pack ice rather than crushed by it, and Amundsen used it for a long drift across the Arctic Ocean off the Siberian coast, hoping the current would carry the ship across the polar region. The caption card gives no date, so the photograph is best placed within that broader expedition period, when polar exploration relied heavily on small crews enduring long winters in the ice.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint Loman Brothers. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Polar Exp.; B.I.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,109 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144173

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