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Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen ( UK: / ˈɑːmʊndsən /, US: /- məns -/; [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 .
5 days ago · Roald Amundsen (born July 16, 1872, Borge, near Oslo, Norway—died June 18, 1928?, Arctic Ocean) was a 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.
The first ever expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four other crew members made it to the geographical south pole on 14 December 1911, [n 1] which would prove to be five weeks ahead of the competitive British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition.
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.
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.
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...
On 11 June 1914, Amundsen obtains a pilot’s license under dramatic circumstances; he emerges unscathed from a plane crash and later completes the exam. World War I impacts the planning of Amundsen’s expedition over the Arctic Ocean, but on 7 June 1917, the new polar vessel the Maud is launched.
The writer of this terse diary entry was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who had won renown five years earlier for being the first to sail the Arctic's fabled Northwest Passage from...
IntroductionRoald 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.
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.
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