Topp Sak. Ubrukt LITHO Ca 1896 - 1898. LITHO ** AUS SVERDRUP, Neues land **" Die FRAM im WINTER  " Utgiver: F. A. Brockhaus, LEIPZIG . GOD KVALITET !! Se Scan!!!

Career and expeditions.
Otto Sverdrup on the first journey of Fram. See also: Nansen´s Fram expedition Sverdrup joined Fridtjof Nansen´s expedition of 1888 across Greenland. In 1892 he was an advisor to Fridtjof Nansen when the ship Fram was built. In 1893 Sverdrup was given command of the ship, and in 1895 he was left in charge of it while Nansen attempted to reach the North Pole. Sverdrup managed to free the ship from the ice near Svalbard in August 1896 and sailed to Skjervøy, arriving just 4 days after Nansen had reached Norway.[1] In the summer of 1897 Sverdrup worked as the shipmaster of Lofoten, a passenger ship to and from Svalbard. In 1898 he embarked on another expedition with Fram.[1] Sverdrup attempted to circumnavigate Greenland via Baffin Bay but failed to make it through the Nares Strait. Forced to overwinter on Ellesmere Island, he and his crew explored and named many uncharted fjords and peninsulas on the western shores of the island, explaining the Norwegian names, such as Hoved Island ("main island"), in the Canadian Arctic.!