FRAM MUSEUM (wooden polarship) Oslo , panorama 360 + photosynth

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:09:46 Z

by RobertzOslo "My related Photosynth (the same place, the same time) see here: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=1bad1be5-1035-495c-a678-7ecef247cead&m=false&i=0:0:50&c=-3.42738:2.43794:-0.152408&z=528.210642559642&d=2.4526799039964:-2.4812365165846:-1.8719088780736&p=0:0&t=False THE FRAM MUSEUM shows the history of great and famous norwegian polar explorers. Its main attraction is the impressive polarship FRAM (eng. "Forward") from 1892. It is said that the FRAM is the strongest wooden ship ever build. It was designed for Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 Arctic expedition and was supposed to freeze into the ice sheet and float with it over North Pole. Nansen's idea was to build a ship that could survive the pressure not by pure strenght but because it would be of shape designed to let the ice push the ship up, so it would "float" on top of the the ice. The ship had spent nearly 3 years baset in the Arctic ice. Next FRAM was used by Roald Amundsen in his southern polar expediton 1910-1912, the first to reach South Pole ( 14.December .1911, 100 years ago!!! ) Technical information: Canon 5D 12.9mpx, ISO 100, Canon 24-105L at 24mm, manual f=11, 13s each shot, manual focus at 3.8m, tripod (without QTVR pano head), 52 shots jpg, ICE stitcher"

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