Gjøa
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Gjøa is a museum ship and was the first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. With a crew of six, Roald Amundsen traversed the passage in a three-year journey, finishing in 1906.
Gjøa at the Norwegian Maritime Museum in Oslo
Gjøa, the first ship to sail through the Northwest Passage
Gjøa in 1903, at the time of the Northwest Passage expedition
Gjøa arrives in Nome, Alaska in August 1906
Roald Amundsen
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Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Gjøa
…Gjøa is a museum ship and was the first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. With a crew of six, Roald Amundsen traversed the passage in a three-year journey, finishing in 1906. The 70 by 20 feet (21.3 by 6.1 metres) square-sterned sloop of 47 net register tonnage…
Amundsen c. 1923
Roald Amundsen as a young boy in 1875
RV Belgica frozen in the ice, 1898
Amundsen c. 1908