Framing the Arctic: Reconsidering Roald Amundsen’s Gjøa Expedition Imagery

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Ingeborg Høvik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Roald Amundsen; Netsilik Inuit; Indigeneity; Photography; Ethnography; Arctic; Norwegian literature; PT8301-9155; Nunavut; Norway; Northwest Passage; King William Island; William Island; inuit; Netsilik; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3431; https://doaj.org/article/0b6b1c1644064b3687c1b84f4c71bc92

In 1906 Roald Amundsen’s Gjøa Expedition returned to Norway after three years in the Arctic. The first to complete a Northwest Passage by sea, the expedition also brought back a substantial amount of ethnographic material concerning the Netsilik Inuit, with whom Amundsen and his crew had been in sus...