Fram may refer to:

Ships

* ''Fram'' (ship), an arctic exploration vessel from Norway * MS ''Fram'', expedition cruise ship owned by Hurtigruten Group

Places and geography

* Fram, Paraguay, a town in Itapúa, Paraguay * Fram Formation, a sequence of rock strata on Ellesmere Island, Canada * Fram, Rače–Fram, a settlement in Slovenia * Fram (river), a stream in Slovenia *

Framlingham Framlingham is a market town and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Of Anglo-Saxon origin, it appears in the 1086 Domesday Book and was part of Loes Hundred. The parish had a population of 3,342 at the 2011 census and an estimated 4,016 in 20 ...

, town in England referred to by locals as "Fram" *

Framingham, Massachusetts Framingham () is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. Incorporated in 1700, it is located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Middlesex County and the MetroWest subregion of the Greater Boston ...

, a city often nicknamed "Fram" ** Framingham State University, a university in that city also often nicknamed "Fram" *

Fram Strait The Fram Strait is the passage between Greenland and Svalbard, located roughly between 77th parallel north, 77°N and 81st parallel north, 81°N latitudes and centered on the prime meridian. The Greenland Sea, Greenland and Norwegian Seas lie sou ...

, in the Arctic Ocean * Fram Islands, in Antarctica * Fram Mesa, in Antarctica * Fram (crater), crater on Mars explored by the Opportunity rover

Arts and culture

* ''Fram'' (play), by Tony Harrison * Fram (Middle-earth), fictional character from the stories of J. R. R. Tolkien * ''Fram, the Polar Bear'', children's book by Romanian writer

Cezar Petrescu Cezar Petrescu (; December 1, 1892–March 9, 1961) was a Romanian journalist, novelist, and children's literature, children's writer. He was born in Cotnari, Hodora, Iași County, the son of Dimitrie Petrescu, an engineer and a teacher. Af ...

* Fram Museum, a museum in Oslo, Norway

Sports

* Knattspyrnufélagið Fram, Icelandic association football club * IF Fram Tórshavn, Faroese association football club * IF Fram, Finnish association football club from Åland *

IF Fram Larvik Idrettsforeningen Fram, better known as Fram Larvik to distinguish it from other sport clubs, is a sports club from Torstrand in Larvik, Norway. It has sections for association football, Athletics (sport), athletics, team handball, handball and ...

, Norwegian sports club * IL Fram, Norwegian sports club * IL Hjelset-Fram, Norwegian sports club * SK Fram (Oslo), Norwegian skiing and social club * SK Fram, Norwegian sports club now a part of Selsbakk IF * SK Fram, Norwegian sports club now a part of Brumunddal IL * Framlingham Town F.C. (known as Fram), English association football club * Fram Stadion, a football stadium in Larvik, Norway

People

* Fram (name), list of people with the name

As an acronym FRAM

* Fellow of the

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the firs ...

in the University of London *

Ferroelectric RAM Ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM, F-RAM or FRAM) is a random-access memory similar in construction to DRAM but using a ferroelectric layer instead of a dielectric layer to achieve non-volatility. FeRAM is one of a growing number of alternative non-vol ...

, a form of non-volatile random access memory * Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization, 1950s United States Navy program to refurbish WWII-era ships ** A similar 1980s U.S. Coast Guard program to modernize its ''Hamilton''-class cutters * Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism for orbital replacement units on external stowage platforms of the International Space Station * Functional Resonance Analysis Method, Modelling Complex Socio-technical Systems, by Erik Hollnagel

Other uses

* FRAM (brand), an American brand of automotive filters * Fram (bicycle company), a Swedish bicycle manufacturer