Roald Amundsen's Exploring Sloop "Gjoa" at Nome Alaska ORIGINAL 1906 RPPC - Rare

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Rare, Original 1906 real photo postcard showing Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's Polar Sloop Ship; Gjoa, at Nome, Alaska at the end of his expedition through the Northwest Passage. Caption, written in the negative, reads; "Amundsen's Exploring Sloop Gjoa, Nome Alaska" Postmarked; Nome, Alaska Oct. 9, 1906 - Measures: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" Condition: crease at the upper left corner, faint stain along the right edge of the card, no tears, some small minor marks at the upper left quadrant, light edge wear, please see scanned images
Roald Amundsen's Exploring Sloop "Gjoa" at Nome Alaska ORIGINAL 1906 RPPC - Rare
Roald Amundsen's Exploring Sloop "Gjoa" at Nome Alaska ORIGINAL 1906 RPPC - Rare
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Rare,
Original
1906 real photo postcard showing Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's Polar Sloop Ship; Gjoa, at Nome, Alaska at the end of his expedition through the Northwest Passage. Caption, written in the negative, reads; "Amundsen's Exploring Sloop Gjoa, Nome Alaska"
Postmarked; Nome, Alaska Oct. 9, 1906 - Measures: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Condition: crease at the upper left corner, faint stain along the right edge of the card, no tears, some small minor marks at the upper left quadrant, light edge wear, please see scanned images
From the Internet: "Roald Amundsen, in full Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen, (born July 16, 1872, Borge, near Oslo, Norway—died June 18, 1928?, Arctic Ocean), Norwegian explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole, the first to make a ship voyage through the Northwest Passage, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air. He was one of the greatest figures in the field of polar exploration. Amundsen studied medicine for a while and then took to sea. In 1897 he sailed as first mate on the Belgica in a Belgian expedition that was the first to winter in the Antarctic. In 1903, with a crew of six on his 47-ton sloop Gjøa, Amundsen began his mission to sail through the Northwest Passage and around the northern Canadian coast. He reached Cape Colborne (in present-day Nunavut) in August 1905, completing his transit of the passage proper, before ice halted his westerly progress for the winter at Herschel Island in the Yukon the following month. Amundsen and his crew resumed the journey in August 1906 and were greeted with a heroes’ welcome when the expedition concluded in Nome, Alaska, later that month. This achievement whetted his appetite for the spectacular in polar exploration".
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