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'Andreas Beck (Sailor)

Andreas Beck Birth	8 October 1864 Norway Balsfjord in Troms Death	18th March 1914 (49 years) near Montevideo, Uruguay Spouse	Josephine Beck Profession	 captain, and ice pilot Andreas Beck on Commons Andreas Beck (born October 8, 1864 in Balsfjord, died March 18, 1914 aboard the polar ship "Fram" and buried at sea off the coast of Montevideo , Uruguay ) was a boat captain and ice pilot. He was the ice pilot on Roald Amundsen's (1910=1912) South Pole expedition. Contents [ hide ] 1 Early ishavsliv 2 One of Amundsen selected 3 The last journey 4 Andreas Beck Top / Mount A. Beck / Beck Peak 5 Movies / TV 6 photos 7 External links Early life

Andreas Beck was the son of the skipper and shipowner Lars Andreas Beck, Balsfjord, Norway. He began his life as a seaman on board his brother's ship "Olivia", since it was sealer "Harald Hårfager" and schooner / sealer "William Barents." He traveled for several years as harpooner on ships as "Sisters," "Diana" and "Mother." In 1896 he was captain of the sailing sloop "Aurora" and from 1903 to 1906 he led his own ship "Cesilie Templates," which he co-owned with Lars Hansen jr. Andreas Beck also led "Holmengrå" on a scientific expedition to Svalbard in 1908 and in 1909 he brought sailing sloop "Marie" of Christiania on Gunnar Holmsen geological expedition to Spitsbergen. 16th November 1909 Andreas Beck was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in silver.

One of Amundsen selected

In the summer of 1910 Andreas Beck was chosen as ice pilot for the polar ship "Fram" on Roald Amundsen planned North Pole Expedition. Few knew that Amundsen already planned as a "detour" to the South Pole, and that Beck was actually brought in for the task of piloting the "Fram" through the Southern Ocean. The contract with Amundsen was signed in April 1909 after Amundsen had been told that his good friend Frederick Cook had reached the north pole, which was Amundsen's real target. Andreas Beck was recommended by friends and Amundsen's contact man in Tromso, Amundsen took the trip to Tromsø for Beck's signature on the contract. From Oslo went "Fram" to Madeira, where Beck and the rest of the crew were informed of the changes in the plans and were given the opportunity to withdraw from the further process. All joined on. Having led "Fram" through the Southern Ocean far faster than planned and put ashore polar expedition in the Bay of Whales in January 1911 went Beck and "Fram" on a several month long oceanographic cruises in the South Atlantic ocean. Helmer Hanssen, one of Amundsen's four selected to the South Pole expedition, writes in his book Through isbaksen : "Beck was a giant of a figure, and as usual for big and strong people, he had a superb good mood. Even so great he was, was no sooner in the rig. He had the property that each ice pilot have, they could smell the ice. Amundsen put Beck very high, and Beck said and suggested, Amundsen went on. " In January 1912 Beck and "Fram" back in the Bay of Whales and retrieved expedition 14 December 1911 had planted the Norwegian flag at the South Pole. The trip to Hobart in Tasmania and then to Buenos Aires in Argentina, where the "Fram" was laid in anticipation of the expedition continued towards the North Pole. In Buenos Aires, Norges Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ambassador Minister of Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, Peter "Don Pedro" Christophersen big party, and the expedition was awarded a medal by the Norwegian Society La Plata. Beck and the rest of the crew traveled by passenger boat to Oslo, where they received a royal reception, and was 20 August 1912 awarded the "Medal of Remembrance for Fram's expedition to the South Pole 1910-1912" ( South Pole medal ). The crew did too, of Amundsen, each with its own pocket in gold, embossed with ekspedisjondeltakerens monogram and inscription "Fram 1910-1912."

The final journey

In 1913, Beck traveled back to Buenos Aires for patterns in the "Fram" to continue Amundsen's expedition to the North. The trip to Panama, where they were to go through the new Panama Canal. Because of the difficulty channel work, however, wait too long and they decided to go south and round Cape Horn instead. On the way south, Andreas Beck ill and died on 18 March 1914. He was sunk off the coast of Montevideo, Uruguay (33 1/2 gr. sb, 49 1/2 gr. YL). Amundsen, who was still in Norway, then chose a number of reasons to abort the expedition and the "Fram" sailed back to Norway. This should also be "Fram" s last journey. Amundsen took a personal trip to Tromsø condolences to the family and to give the widow Josephine Beck 10000 kr. Andreas Beck Top / Mount A. Beck / Beck Peak

The Amundsen map of south pole is Andreas Beck honored with his name on a mountaintop. "Andreas Beck Top" is the Amundsen drawn at 87 ° 20'S 148 ° 0'Ø. In recent surveys of United States Geological Survey gave the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names mountain name Beck Peak and localized it to 86 ° 5'S 158 ° 58'V. Movies / TV

TV series The last place on earth is a British storprodukjon from 1985 race to the South Pole, with a plethora of well-known and prolific actors. In this TV series was Andreas Beck portrayed by Erik Bye. Roald Amundsen's South Pole journey (1910-1912) is a historic film release from the Norwegian Film Institute, such as contains the original film footage from the South Pole expedition. Andreas Beck can be seen in several of the recordings, which is one of very few films in the UNESCO international register Memory of the World. Photos