| Sumario: | The voyage of the Belgica is one of the most fascinating of the early antarctic expeditions, and probably the least comfortable one to have taken part in. It became the first expedition to Winter in Antarctica and a training ground for a number of the crew members who later became internationally ack nowledged experts in their fields. Among the officers was Roald Amundsen , who would later to be the first man to sail the North West Passage and also to reach the South Pole Frederick A. Cook, the expedition’s doctor and photographer, took a series of stereo photographs during the voyage. Roald Amundsen owned a large collection of these photographs. After Amundses’s death in 1928, this collection was inherited by Leon Amundsen’s, Roald’s brother. In 2008, Leon Amundsen’s family donated the Belgica photo collection to the Fram Museum in Oslo.
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