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... 49 KB (5,060 words) - 20:54, 29 April 2024 |
The first ever expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Himself and four other crew members made... 75 KB (10,138 words) - 22:30, 26 April 2024 |
January 1912, both Roald Amundsen (leading his South Pole expedition) and Robert Falcon Scott (leading the Terra Nova Expedition) reached the South Pole... 48 KB (6,532 words) - 00:09, 30 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (525 words) - 17:57, 21 September 2023 |
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... 66 KB (6,197 words) - 01:45, 22 April 2024 |
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... 67 KB (9,126 words) - 19:27, 2 March 2024 |
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... 114 KB (12,789 words) - 05:59, 28 April 2024 |
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... 17 KB (1,458 words) - 15:26, 15 April 2024 |
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... 6 KB (670 words) - 18:44, 21 September 2023 |
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... 21 KB (1,898 words) - 21:54, 26 March 2024 |
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... 33 KB (3,257 words) - 04:31, 29 April 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,000 words) - 15:56, 1 April 2024 |
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... 60 KB (7,907 words) - 17:58, 30 April 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,072 words) - 16:03, 1 April 2024 |
"Biographies". Transglobe Expedition. Archived from the original on 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2020-03-09. "The Transglobe Expedition". Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station... 16 KB (1,414 words) - 12:18, 23 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,001 words) - 23:16, 9 April 2024 |
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... 7 KB (828 words) - 16:02, 28 December 2023 |
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.... 9 KB (1,194 words) - 18:06, 15 January 2024 |
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... 6 KB (546 words) - 01:35, 26 July 2023 |
Expedition led by George Binney, uses a seaplane to assist in the first traverse of Nordaustlandet 1925: Flying boat expedition led by Roald Amundsen... 40 KB (4,647 words) - 10:28, 22 April 2024 |
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... 111 KB (11,760 words) - 12:21, 9 April 2024 |
Richard E. Byrd (redirect from Byrd Antarctic Expedition) flight". Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. January 30, 2021. "Milestones:Long-Range Shortwave Voice Transmissions from Byrd's Antarctic Expedition, 1934"... 77 KB (8,417 words) - 00:04, 29 April 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,425 words) - 18:06, 7 August 2022 |
was the first expedition to reach the South Pole overland for 46 years, preceded only by Amundsen's expedition and Scott's expedition in 1911 and 1912... 10 KB (1,366 words) - 03:18, 26 July 2023 |
Gjøa (section Purchase by Amundsen) first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. With a crew of six, Roald Amundsen traversed the passage in a three-year journey, finishing in 1906. The 70... 12 KB (1,494 words) - 04:42, 19 May 2023 |