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Refloating and moving the Maud, Roald Amundsen’s ship
The ship used by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen has finally returned to Norway, his home country, a hundred years after setting sail for the North Pole, the director of the repatriation project announced.
The Maud, a robust three-masted sailing ship, a valuable relic of the Norwegian polar expeditions, was refloated in 2016 after spending 85 years under the waters of northern Canada, where it sank in 1930.
After leaving Greenland, the wreck was towed across the North Atlantic on a barge and arrived at the port of Bergen in western Norway.
“The trip was long but it was good,” the director of the operation”, Jan Wanggaard, told AFP. Thanks to the financing of three brothers and Norwegian businessmen, the Maud will be exhibited in the municipality of Asker (southeast), near Oslo, where it was launched in 1917. “Roald Amundsen is an important historical figure in Norway,” explained Wanggaard. “We want to tell the story of this expedition to the Norwegian people,” he added…
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