Roald Amundsen?s ?We?ve Been to the South Pole? tour is back, probably with the same glass lantern slides he showed lecture attendees here in 1913, when ?the eyes of the civilized world were in a sense turned on Madison.? Peggy Hager, senior lecturer in Norwegian at UW-Madison, said the university was offered the exhibit by the Norwegian embassy, which has placed the posters and accompanying large photos and text at Scandinavian cultural centers across the Midwest and Northwest. To accompany the exhibit, Hager arranged four lectures, ?Exploration from a Norwegian Perspective,? on explorer Fridtjof Nansen, the Vikings, the Sami, and Ice Cube, UW-Madison?s research station at the South Pole.
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