Editing Antarctic (ship) (section)

==The ship==
''Antarctic'' was a [[barque]] with three masts and equipped with a [[steam engine]], built in 1871 at Holmen in [[Drammen]] in Norway under the name ''Cap Nor''.<ref name="A">[https://runeberg.org/polexp1898/0017.html], Alfred Nathorst, ”Två Somrar i Norra Ishafvet”, first part (in Swedish), 1900, accessdate=2010-12-10</ref><ref name="BB">[https://archive.today/20130223012136/http://www.nb.no/utlevering/contentview.jsf?&urn=URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2008121110001%23&struct=DIV44], Henrik Bull, ”The cruise of the "Antarctic" to the South Polar regions”, 1896, accessdate=2010-12-10</ref><ref name="B">{{cite web|url=http://www.geo.uu.se/default.aspx?pageid=213&lan=0|title=Axel Hamberg på Nathorstexpeditionen 1898|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725113619/http://www.geo.uu.se/default.aspx?pageid=213&lan=0|archive-date=2011-07-25|url-status=dead|access-date=2010-12-11}}, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University (in Swedish), accessdate=2010-12-10</ref>

Initially ''Antarctic'' was used for [[seal hunting]] around [[Svalbard]], [[Jan Mayen]] and [[Greenland]].<ref name="AA">[https://runeberg.org/nfba/0622.html], Nordisk Familjebok, Project Runeberg, Linköping University (in Swedish), accessdate=2010-12-10</ref>  During that period the ship was captained by Gullik Jensen.

In the early 1890s Norwegian ship-owner [[Svend Foyn]] wanted to expand his business to the Antarctic Ocean thereby needing capable ships. Foyn then purchased ''Cap Nor'', made extensive repairs and after completion renamed the ship ''Antarctic''.<ref name=A/><ref name=B/><ref name=AA/> From 1893 the ship was deployed to the [[Antarctic Ocean]] for [[whale hunting]].

In 1897 the ship was purchased by [[Alfred Gabriel Nathorst]] for his planned expedition to Svalbard. Again extensive repairs were made prior to the expedition in 1898.<ref name=A/><ref name=B/><ref name=AA/>

In 1899 Nathorst sold the ship to [[Georg Carl Amdrup]] for his expedition to [[Tunu|East Greenland]].<ref name=AA/>

In 1900 Amdrup sold ''Antarctic'' to [[Otto Nordenskjöld]] who needed the ship for his [[Swedish Antarctic Expedition|Antarctic expedition]].