The Fram was a ship constructed by Norwegian explorer Fredtjof Nansen. Nansen's ambition was to use the Fram to explore the Arctic farther north than anyone else. The one problem he had to deal with was that the freezing ice could easily demolish and crush a ship. Nansen's idea to overcome this problem was to build a ship that could survive the pressure. Not by pure strength, but because it would be a shape designed to let the ice push the ship up, so it would "float" on top of the ice. Fram was built with an outer layer of greenheart wood to withstand the ice. Fram was the only wooden ship ever built for this purpose.
After the completion of the Fram, it was used for many expeditions. During expeditions, the Fram survived three long years directly in the ice.
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