Photo: Greenland ho! Maud reaches 2017 destination

After three weeks of sailing, the Maud Returns Home team reports that Roald Amundsen’s Maud wreck has reached Aasiaat, Greenland, where the ship will overwinter on its way home to Norway next summer. Built in Norway in 1917 to take Amundsen and crew through the fabled Northwest Passage, the Maud never quite made it and languished in the waters off Cambridge Bay for about 80 years. The Maud was eventually raised by Jan Wanggaard and his colleagues, dried out and placed on a barge to bring it back to its place of origin to eventually be put on public display. (PHOTO COURTESY MAUD RETURNS HOME)