Fram - Named After Fram

Named After Fram

• Fram Island (Ostrov Frama), an island close to the Komsomolskaya Pravda Islands, Laptev Sea
• Framheim (literally "Home of the Fram"), Amundsen's Base at the Bay of Whales in Antarctica during his quest for the South Pole
• Fram Rupes, an escarpment on Mercury
• Fram crater, a small crater on Mars, visited by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in 2004
• Fram Basin, the deepest point in the Arctic Ocean
• Fram Strait, a passage from the Arctic Ocean to the Greenland Sea and Norwegian Sea, between Greenland and Spitsbergen.
• Fram, a play by Tony Harrison, premièred at the National Theatre London, 2008
• In Arthur Ransome's children's book, Winter Holiday, the children use the name, Fram, for their Uncle Jim's houseboat, trapped in the ice on the lake which becomes the inspiration for some of their adventures.