ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
TAKEN ON THE EXPEDITION
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1925
Copyright, 1925,
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
The Quinn & Boden Company
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RAHWAY NEW JERSEY
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Part I: The Expedition | [1] |
| BY ROALD AMUNDSEN | |
| Part II: The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight | [101] |
| BY LINCOLN ELLSWORTH | |
| Part III: The Navigator’s Task | [141] |
| BY LIEUT. HJALMAR RIISER-LARSEN | |
| Part IV: Report About N 24 from the Start Until We Joined N 25 and Its Crew on the 26th May | [219] |
| BY L. DIETRICHSON | |
| Part V: Whilst We Wait | [253] |
| LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF FREDRIK RAMM FROM MAY 21ST TO JUNE 18TH | |
| Part VI: The Weather | [341] |
| BY JAKOB BJERKENS | |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Before We Left We Planted our Norwegian Flag [Frontispiece] | |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Lincoln Ellsworth | [2] |
| The Directors of the King’s Bay Coal Company, Messrs. Brandal and Knutsen | [3] |
| Sailmaker Rönne | [3] |
| “Fram” Moored to the Ice at the Edge of King’s Bay | [22] |
| Unloading | [22] |
| The Games on May 17th | [23] |
| The Planes Were Put Together Near the Coal Company’s Workshops | [23] |
| The Crew of N 25: Riiser-Larsen, Amundsen, Feucht | [38] |
| The Crew of N 24: Ellsworth, Dietrichson, Omdal | [38] |
| Photograph of Amundsen’s Machine Taken in Flight | [39] |
| When the Two Planes Were Near Each Other | [54] |
| A New Lead Opening in the Ice | [55] |
| Getting Ready for a Fresh Start | [55] |
| Collecting Snow Blocks for a Run-way | [70] |
| Trying Out Our Bulb Sextants | [71] |
| Fast in the Ice | [71] |
| Members of the Expedition Arriving at King’s Bay | [92] |
| Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth at the Reception by the King of Norway | [93] |
| Lincoln Ellsworth and N 24 Just Before the Start | [104] |
| The Polar Sea from the Sky | [105] |
| N 25 Above the Polar Pack Just Before Landing at 87° 44’ | [118] |
| N 24 and Our Arctic Home | [119] |
| Ellsworth, Amundsen, Larsen and Feucht with the Implements with Which They Moved 300 Tons of Ice | [134] |
| Lincoln Ellsworth After the Trip | [135] |
| Captain Roald Amundsen, Just Before the Take-off from Spitzbergen | [150] |
| Just Before the Take-off | [151] |
| Our Footgear | [151] |
| Taking the Wings Out of Their Boxes | [166] |
| Setting Up the Wings | [166] |
| Mounting the Wings | [167] |
| The Last Meeting Before the Flight | [167] |
| The Edge of the Polar Ice Pack | [182] |
| Our Last Hope for a Take-off | [183] |
| Disembarking from the Sjoliv at King’s Bay | [198] |
| Members of the Expedition After Their First Dinner Ashore | [199] |
| Our First Solid Camp | [199] |
| Preparing the Planes for Their Arctic Flight | [214] |
| The Last View of Spitzbergen | [215] |
| Edge of the Polar Pack | [215] |
| The Sjoliv, the Sealer That Picked Them Up | [230] |
| At Brandy Bay, Northeast Land, on the Way Home | [231] |
| Amundsen—Before the Trip | [246] |
| Amundsen—After | [246] |
| Ellsworth—Before | [246] |
| Ellsworth—After | [246] |
| Riiser-Larsen—Before | [247] |
| Riiser-Larsen—After | [247] |
| Dietrichson—Before | [247] |
| Dietrichson—After | [247] |
| Omdal—Before | [262] |
| Omdal—After | [262] |
| Feucht—Before | [262] |
| Feucht—After | [262] |
| The Explorers at Oslo | [263] |
| The Two Meteorologists | [344] |
| N 25 on the Way to Oslo | [344] |
| Route of the Amundsen-Ellsworth Flight | [345] |
| The Course of the Ships on Watch | [356] |
| Territory Explored by the Flight Expedition | [357] |