Multiple choice

Which Norwegian explorer allowed his ship to freeze in the Arctic Ocean in 1893 to see which way it would drift?

  1. Roald Amundsen

  2. Ernest Shackleton

  3. Robert Falcon Scott

  4. Fridtjof Nansen

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Fridtjof Nansen designed the ship Fram to withstand ice pressure and intentionally let it freeze into the Arctic pack ice in 1893 to demonstrate the existence of an east-to-west ocean current across the Arctic.