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Picture of the vessel MS Roald Amundsen Roald Amundsen in the Antarctic. MS Roald Amundsen is a hybrid powered expedition cruise ship operated by Norwegian company Hurtigruten AS. [4] She was built by Kleven Yards of Norway and started her maiden voyage on 3 July 2019 from the Norwegian port Tromsø to Hamburg. [1] She and her sister ship ...
Maud, named for Queen Maud of Norway, was a ship built for Roald Amundsen for his second expedition to the Arctic.Designed for his intended voyage through the Northeast Passage, the vessel was built in Asker, a suburb of the capital, Oslo.
Roald Amundsen (often abbreviated Roald; named in honor of Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen), originally named Vilm, is a German steel-ship built on the Elbe River in 1952. Having worked in different areas, she was refitted in 1992 to 1993 as a brig (two-masted square-rigged sailing ship) and now serves as a sail training ship.
This extraordinary ship is an inquisitive voyager’s oasis. ... coldest continent—has been depicted in journals of explorers from Sir Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen to Robert Falcon Scott ...
The Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910–12, in the ship Kainan Maru, was the first such expedition by a non-European nation. It was concurrent with two major Antarctic endeavours led respectively by Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott, and has been relatively overlooked in polar history.
Roald Amundsen as a young boy in 1875. Amundsen was born into a family of Norwegian shipowners and captains in Borge, between the towns Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg.His parents were Jens Amundsen and Hanna Sahlqvist.
HNoMS Roald Amundsen is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Construction and commissioning. Built by the Spanish shipbuilders Navantia, ...
Roald Amundsen told the story of the exploration of the Norwest Passage in Nordvestpassagen : Beretning om Gjøa-ekspedisjonen 1903-1907 . The material was translated into English as The North-West Passage: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the ship "Gjøa" 1903–1907 (Ams Press Inc; 1908, ISBN 978-0-404-11625-5 and reprinted ...