Chapter I: 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