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

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Høvik, Ingeborg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Roald Amundsen; Netsilik Inuit; Indigeneity; Photography; Ethnography; Arctic; King William Island; Northwest Passage; Norway; Nunavut; William Island; inuit; Netsilik; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3431; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3431

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...