Østfold, Norway, Amundsen began his career as a polar explorer as first mate on Adrien de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899. From...
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January 1912, both Roald Amundsen (leading his South Pole expedition) and Robert Falcon Scott (leading the Terra Nova Expedition) reached the South Pole...
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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...
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The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under...
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Polar exploration (redirect from Polar expedition)
Fram was leaving their last port of call, Madeira. Amundsen's South Pole expedition, with Amundsen and four others, arrived at the pole on 14 December...
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on 17 January 1912, where they found that a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. Scott's party of five died on the return...
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Northwest Passage (redirect from Amundsen expedition)
for him the McClure Arctic Expedition discovered the Northwest Passage in 1850. In 1906, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was the first to complete...
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Oscar Wisting (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
Horten during 1909 when Roald Amundsen asked him to go north with him on his forthcoming North Pole expedition. Amundsen later secretly changed his plans...
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the scientists and officers of the expedition were offered membership. A few weeks later, in Montevideo, Amundsen wrote in his diary that he had never...
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Polheim (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
prior to Amundsen's expedition, particularly the competing claims of Frederick Cook and Robert Peary to have reached the North Pole first, Amundsen took special...
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Norge (airship) (redirect from Amundsen-Ellsworth 1926 Transpolar Flight)
between Europe and America. The expedition was the brainchild of polar explorer and expedition leader Roald Amundsen, the airship's designer and pilot...
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The Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica. It lies between Cape Flying Fish (the northwestern tip of Thurston...
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South Pole (section Amundsen's Tent)
to Antarctica with his second expedition, the Terra Nova Expedition, initially unaware of Amundsen's secretive expedition. Scott and four other men reached...
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Fram (ship) (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between...
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Hjalmar Johansen (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
record near the North Pole. Johansen also participated in the expedition of Roald Amundsen to the South Pole in 1910–1912. Born at Skien in Telemark county...
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Helmer Hanssen (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
and polar explorer. He participated in three of the polar expeditions led by Roald Amundsen and was one of the first five explorers to reach the South...
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"Biographies". Transglobe Expedition. Archived from the original on 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2020-03-09. "The Transglobe Expedition". Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station...
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Antarctic Expedition – led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot 1910–1912 – Japanese Antarctic Expedition – led by Nobu Shirase 1910–1912 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole...
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The Amundsen Glacier (85°35′S 159°00′W / 85.583°S 159.000°W / -85.583; -159.000) is a major Antarctic glacier, about 7 to 11 km (4 to 6 nmi) wide and...
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Robert Falcon Scott (category Antarctic expedition deaths)
South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition. A planned meeting with supporting dog teams from the base...
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Amundsen is a Norwegian film, released on 15 February 2019, that details the life of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. It was directed by Espen Sandberg...
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record had been surpassed, as first Amundsen and then Scott reached the South Pole. In his own moment of triumph, Amundsen nevertheless observed: "Sir Ernest...
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Olav Bjaaland (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
one of the first five men to reach the South Pole as part of Amundsen's South Pole expedition. Olav Olavsen Bjaaland was born on the Søndre Bjaaland farm...
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Kristian Prestrud (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
participated in Amundsen's South Pole expedition between 1910 and 1912. Prestrud was first officer of the Fram and leader of the Norwegian expedition's Eastern...
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Andreas Beck (explorer) (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
schooner Fram as an ice captain for Roald Amundsen's planned North Pole expedition. Few people knew that Amundsen had already planned a "detour" to the South...
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Axel Heiberg Glacier (redirect from Amundsen Icefall)
numerous Norwegian polar expeditions. Amundsen used this glacier as his route up onto the polar plateau during his successful expedition to the South Pole....
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MS Roald Amundsen is a new hybrid powered Hurtigruten expedition cruise ship. She was built by Kleven Yards of Norway and started her maiden voyage on...
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Passage in 1903–05 by Roald Amundsen with the Gjøa expedition ended the centuries-long quest for the route. Franklin’s expedition explored the vicinity of...
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Ernest Shackleton (category Antarctic expedition deaths)
that the pole had been conquered by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, but the fate of Scott's expedition was not then known. Shackleton's mind turned to a project...
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Expedition led by George Binney, uses a seaplane to assist in the first traverse of Nordaustlandet 1925: Flying boat expedition led by Roald Amundsen...
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