Roald Amundsen, Commander of the Gjoa Expedition with Mrs. R.T. Lyng, Wife of the Norwegian Consul, 1906

Under the command of explorer Roald Amundsen, the Gjoa was the first ship to sail through the entire Northwest Passage. Amundsen and six crew members left Kristiania (present-day Oslo), Norway, in June 1903 and arrived at Nome, Alaska, in September 1906. Following the expedition, the Gjoa was displayed in San Francisco and then relocated to Oslo's Fram Museum.