The Polar Tara station is at sea this year before going to the Arctic
Maéva Bardy/Tara Ocean Foundation
In 1893, the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen left Norway on a mission to derive through the North Pole. Its ship, the FRAM, had been specially designed with a rounded shell so that it is seated at the top of the Arctic ice, slowly transporting its crew on the Arctic.
Nansen never arrived at the North Pole, but after three years locked in the ice, the Fram emerged in the North Atlantic Ocean. The trip was the first in history at …
