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Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (UK: / ˈ ɑː m ʊ n d s ən /, US: /-m ə n s-/; [3] [4] Norwegian: [ˈrùːɑɫ ˈɑ̂mʉnsən] ⓘ; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Jul 12, 2024 · Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole, the first to make a ship voyage through the Northwest Passage, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air. He was one of the greatest figures in the field of polar exploration.
Roald Amundsen, (born July 16, 1872, Borge, near Oslo, Nor.—disappeared June 18, 1928?, Arctic Ocean), Norwegian explorer, leader of the first group to reach the South Pole. In 1897 he took part in a Belgian expedition that was the first to winter in the Antarctic.
Feb 6, 2023 · In December 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first to reach the South Pole — but that wasn't all he accomplished. Amundsen dedicated most of his life to exploring the Arctic and is widely considered the first man to reach both the South and North Poles.
Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, is known as one of the pillars of the “Heroic Age” of polar exploration. His exploits, which spanned Earth’s northern and southern polar regions during the first decades of the 20th century, are legendary even by today’s standards.
Dec 14, 2011 · December 14, 2011. • 6 min read. It was the strangest of all races. Two teams of five men each—one British, the other Norwegian—set out at the beginning of the 1911 Antarctic summer, both bent...
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, the first to reach the South Pole, a navigator of the Northeast Passage, the first to fly to latitude 88⁰ N, and the first to fly across the Arctic Ocean.
Learn about the avid adventurer who beat Captain Scott to claim the South Pole for Norway. Roald Amundsen is one of history’s most celebrated explorers, famous for navigating the North-West Passage and being the first to reach the South Pole.
Roald Amundsen, nicknamed “The Last of the Vikings” was an Arctic explorer, and the first man to reach the South Pole in 1911. A natural explorer, Amundsen was also the first to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage, and reach the North Pole by flight. Biography.
The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was one of the most important people in the history of polar exploration. He traveled to both the Arctic and the Antarctic, and he was the first person to reach the South Pole.
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