MEDIA COVERAGE

Norway will look after heritage ship Maud 23 December 2011 » Richard MacKenzie, Times Colonist Just to clarify a bit of Arctic maritime history. Roald Amundsen and his small crew of six traversed the Northwest Passage in 1903-1906, making their 45-ton Gjoa the first to […]

Amundsen’s ship may stay in Nunavut 19 December 2011 » The Windsor Star, windsorstar.com The wreck of the Maud, the ship once sailed by legendary Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, may yet spend out its days in Nunavut. Its future now hangs on the decision […]

Massiv støtte fra canadiske lesere 19 December 2011 » Budstikka.no Nyheten om at myndighetene ikke tillater Tandberg Eiendom å hente Maud-vraket får canadiske lesere til å reagere. “Båten har ligget og råtnet hele denne tiden. Nå som eierne ønsker å […]

Canadians could have shot at buying explorer Roald Amundsen’s ship, Maud 17 December 2011 » Canada.com The wreck of the Maud, the ship once sailed by legendary Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, may yet spend out its days in Nunavut. Its future now hangs on the decision […]

Feds deny export permit for Arctic shipwreck 17 December 2011 » CBC.ca, CBCnews North The federal government has denied an export permit for the “Baymaud” shipwreck resting in waters off Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. A group of investors wants to move the 100-year old wreck […]

Ottawa nixes export permit for Maud 16 December 2011 » NunatsiaqOnline.ca Roald Amundsen’s Maud likely to remain in Nunavut. A plan to tow the half-submerged wreck of a ship off the shore of Nunavut’s Cambridge Bay back to Norway has hit […]

OTTAWA DENIES NORWEGIANS PASSAGE FOR MAUD 16 December 2011 » The Globe and Mail The federal government has refused to allow a group of Norwegians to take a ship built for famed polar explorer Roald Amundsen out of the Arctic harbour where it sank […]

Canadians may see a chance to buy back Amundsen’s Maud 16 December 2011 » NunatsiaqOnline.ca But first a review board must uphold export permit refusal. The wreck of the Maud — also known as the Baymaud, which lies half-submerged in the waters near Cambridge Bay, […]

Norske Maud får ikke forlate Canada 15 December 2011 » VG.no Polarskipet Maud, som Amundsen forsøkte å nå Nordpolen med, skulle fraktes hjem til Norge. Men nå sier kanadiske myndigheter nei.

Nekter eksporttillatelse 15 December 2011 » Budstikka.no Tandberg Eiendom som eier Maud-vraket trenger eksporttillatelse for å berge det og bringe skuta til Norge. Men nå sier kanadiske myndigheter nei til å gi en slik tillatelse. Bakgrunn for […]

The Maud: From Nunavut to Norway? 25 August 2011 » CBC News The National, CBCnews.ca Video from The Maud: Reg Sherren meets two Norwegian explorers taking on 80 years of history and some local opposition in Cambridge Bay to float famed explorer Roald Amundsen’s sunken […]

Søker eksporttillatelse for Maud 24 August 2011 » Budstikka.no «Maud Returns Home» kommer til å koble inn utenriksminister Jonas Gahr Støre om de ikke får eksporttillatelse for å få polarskuta Maud hjem til Norge og Vollen, sier prosjektleder Jan […]

Norway Seeks to Reclaim South Pole Explorer’s Shipwreck 22 August 2011 » OurAmazingPlanet.com Investors in Norway are attempting to repossess a sunken ship in the Canadian Arctic that once belonged to storied Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first human to set foot at […]

Norway Wants Amundsen’s Ship Back 22 August 2011 » Discovery News Eighty years after it sank in the Canadian Arctic, explorer Roald Amundsen’s three-mast ship Maud may once again sail across the Atlantic to become the centerpiece of a new museum […]

Vil hente nasjonalklenodium hjem fra Canada 20 August 2011 » NRK.no Wanggaard forteller at lokalbefolkninga var skeptiske innledningsvis, men at de har endra oppfatning de siste par ukene etter at prosjektplanene har blitt kjent. – De ser at vårt bergingsinitiativ sannsynligvis […]

A Maud-est Proposal 18 August 2011 » The Mark Dialogue and negotiation can pave the way forward in the Norwegian-Canadian dispute over the arctic shipwreck Maud.

80 ans après son naufrage, le Maud d’Amundsen pourrait revenir en Norvège 16 August 2011 » Libération.fr MONTREAL (AFP) – Le célèbre trois-mâts Maud, construit pour l’explorateur Roald Amundsen et prisonnier depuis plus de 80 ans de l’océan Arctique, pourrait retraverser l’Atlantique pour retourner en Norvège. Si […]

Norwegians survey sunken ship in Canada 14 August 2011 » The Globe and Mail Jan Wanggaard and Dag Leslie Hansen feared they were entering hostile territory when they landed in the Nunavut hamlet of Cambridge Bay this summer. The two Norwegians are tasked with […]

Norwegians win converts for removing the Maud from Nunavut 8 August 2011 » NunatsiaqOnline.ca “If Ottawa tells them they can take it, they can” (Syd Glawson, mayor of Cambridge Bay). People in Cambridge Bay have been watching Jan Wanggaard and a fellow diver from […]

Kampen om Maud 8 August 2011 » ABCnyheter.no Norge ønsker denne kulturskatten tilbake. En komite ser den helst på havets bunn. Snart kan det være for sent å redde skipsvraket. Hun har ligget i isvannet i Cambridge Bay […]

Norway, Nunavut clash over shipwreck 7 August 2011 » National Post Rather than see it preserved in a Norwegian museum, a committee in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut would rather see the Maud end its days on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. […]

Radio interview: Maud’s Fate? 5 August 2011 » CBC North, CBC.ca A Norweigan development company wants to pull the Maud of the water and ship her 7,000 kilometres back to Norway. Jan Wanggaard is visiting Cambridge Bay from Norway to research […]

If we won’t save our Arctic heritage, let the Norwegians do it 21 July 2011 » The Globe and Mail Globe Editorial: If the Norwegian interests that own the Maud – the wreck of an expedition ship once commanded by the legendary polar explorer Roald Amundsen – can raise the […]

Norwegian-Canadian dispute over Roald Amundsen ship 20 July 2011 » tv2.no - nyheter -utenriks Lokalbefolkningen vil ikke at skipsvraket skal fraktes tilbake til Norge. Vraket av skipet «Maud» har i over 80 år ligget urørt i Cambridge Bay i Nordvestpassasjen i Canada. Nå bygger […]

CBC radio interview – “tug of war?” – Jan Wanggaard 20 July 2011 » CBCnews.ca CAMBRIDGE BAY SHIP FIGHT International disputes are pretty rare in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. But there’s a fight on now. At issue is a shipwreck poking up from the bottom of […]

The Globe and Mail 19 July 2011 » Canada, The Globe and Mail It’s an international tug-of-war over a ship that has sat at the bottom of an Arctic fiord in Canada for the better part of a century… READ COMMENTS The Norwegians […]

Cambridge Bay fights to keep shipwreck 6 June 2011 » Northern News Services ONLINE IKALUKTUTIAK/CAMBRIDGE BAY – A committee has been formed to keep the Baymaud shipwreck in Cambridge Bay after its Norwegian owners announced plans to move it to Norway.

Canadians fight proposal to move famed Arctic exploration ship Maud – Alaska Dispatch 4 June 2011 » AlaskaDispatch.com A group of citizens in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, is fighting to keep the wreck of the Maud, a ship that once belonged to famed polar explorer Roald Amundsen, from being […]

Arctic shipwreck inflames passions in Norway and Canada 27 May 2011 » RCInet.ca Listen to intervju with Delgado, Wanggaard and Glawson on RCI // Radio Canada International. The Maud is a ship with a history that’s linked to Canada and Norway. She sank […]

Amundsen’s ‘Maud’ to be raised from Northwest Passage seafloor 26 May 2011 » Norway.com The wreck of Roald Amundsen’s ship “Maud” will be brought back to Norway from the seabed in Cambridge Bay in Canada’s Northwest Passage, where it has rested for the past […]

Norwegian group seeks Amundsen’s ship from Canada 25 May 2011 » CBCnews.ca The sunken remains of a ship belonging to famed Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen could be lifted out of Canadian waters and returned to Norway if a group of investors has […]

Maud-dykker: – Det haster å redde «Maud» før den raser fra hverandre 21 May 2011 » Budstikka.no Ikke mange nordmenn har dykket mer på «Maud»-vraket enn dykker- og bergingsmann Hans Vrålstad (70) fra Bærum. Han støtter fullt ut planene om å redde polarskuta fra isen i Canada.

Plans to bring Amundsen’s Maud from Nunavut to Norway move ahead 19 May 2011 » NunatsiaqOnline.ca “Maud really deserves a better destiny than to totally disintegrate where she lies today” .. Next week, Tandberg Eindom AS, the Norwegian investment company that wants to bring the Maud […]

Norway wants Amundsen’s Maud back from Nunavut 15 May 2011 » NunatsiaqOnline.ca NunatsiaqOnline: OSLO — For more than 80 years the wreck of the Maud has stayed right where it sank in 1930: in a bay outside today’s community of Cambridge Bay.

Norwegians want Amundsen ship Maud back from Nunavut 6 May 2011 » The Vancouver Sun .com OSLO — For more than 80 years the wreck of the Maud has stayed right where it sank in 1930: in a bay outside today’s community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.

- Nesten stum 28 April 2011 » Budstikka.no Maud-ekspert og kommandørkaptein gjennom 40 år, Per Chr. Blichfeldt fra Bleiker, er målløs når han hører om planene for å hente Maud hjem.

Stor entusiasme for kjempeprosjektet som skal bringe polarskuta Maud til kystkultursenteret på Vollen i Asker 26 April 2011 » Fortidsminneforeningen.no Akershus: Firmaet Tandberg Eiendom har satt seg fore å gjøre en innsats for fartøyvernet og kystkultursenteret på Vollen i Asker. De skal bringe “Maud” hjem. Og nei, vi snakker ikke […]

Intervju i “Lang Lunsj”- Radio Østlandssendingen 19 April 2011 » NRK.no, Radio, Østlandssendingen Hør Jan F. Wanggaard fortelle om prosjektet Maud Returns Home

Maud-retur vekker begeistring i hele Norge 18 April 2011 » Budstikka.no Espen og Gudbrand Tandberg har fått en rekke henvendelser fra ulike deler av landet etter at de slapp nyhetene om at polarskuta Maud skal hentes hjem til Norge.

- Vil heve polarskuta Maud og få henne hjem 17 April 2011 » Forskning.no Lokale entusiaster ønsker å heve Roald Amundsens polarskute Maud og hente henne hjem til sikker havn i Vollen i Asker.

Blandede følelser rundt Maud-museet 16 April 2011 » Budstikka.no Mange turister til Maud-museet kombinert med dårlig infrastruktur vil skape feil inntrykk av Vollen, mener beboer Ingvild Baastad.

Slik kan Maud-museet i Vollen bli seende ut 15 April 2011 » Snøhetta tenker seg polarskuta Maud lagt inn i et flytende skjær. Jarmund/Vigsnæs vil ha den inn i et glasshus formet som to isblokker.

- Slik kan Maud-museet i Asker bli 15 April 2011 » NRK.no To arkitektfirmaer har de siste ukene jobbet på spreng med å lage hver sin prosjektskisse med hvordan de synes «Maud» bør vises frem i Vollen.

- Maud vil gjøre Vollen komplett 14 April 2011 » Budstikka.no Terje Planke ved Norsk Maritimt Museum synes det er flott om Maud kommer hjem til Vollen, der han selv også bor.

- Bringer Maud tilbake til Vollen 14 April 2011 » Seilas.no Polarskuta «Maud» skal heves fra sin våte grav i Cambridge Bay i Canada og bringes tilbake til Vollen der den ble bygget.

- En fantastisk utfordring å få hente «Maud» hjem 13 April 2011 » Budstikka.no Prosjektleder Jan Wangaard beskriver polarskuta «Maud» som en juvel med eikehud.

Henter Polarskuta Maud hjem til Vollen 13 April 2011 » Budstikka Tandberg Eiendom er villige til å bruke mellom 20 og 30 millioner kroner for å hente polarskuta «Maud» hjem til Vollen, og gi den sikker og endelig havn.

Polarskuta Maud hjem til Vollen? 13 April 2011 » AskerKommune.no Asker kommune eier Roald Amundsens polarskute Maud, som ligger sunket utenfor Canada. Formannskapet har bedt rådmannen om å forhandle frem en avtale med Tandberg Eiendom As om overføring av disposisjonsrett […]

NRK Østlandssendingen. Kl. 20:55 13 April 2011 » NRK.no TV innslag.

“Maud” is being brought back to Norway 13 April 2011 » nansenamundsen.no, The Nansen-Amundsen-Year The wreck of Roald Amundsen’s ship “Maud” is beeing brought back to Norway from the seabed in Cambridge Bay in the Northwest Passage in Canada where it has been located […]

Vil heve polarskuta Maud og få henne hjem 13 April 2011 » Aftenposten.no Lokale entusiaster ønsker å heve Roald Amundsens polarskute Maud og hente henne hjem til sikker havn i Vollen i Asker.

“Maud” kommer hjem 13 April 2011 » NRK.no Vraket av Roald Amundsens skute “Maud” skal hentes tilbake til Norge fra Nordvestpassasjen. Et museum planlegges i Vollen i Asker.