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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.
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.
Scott and his financial backers saw the expedition as having a scientific basis, while also wishing to reach the pole. However, it was recognised by all involved that the South Pole was the primary objective ("The Southern Journey involves the most important object of the Expedition" – Scott), and had priority in terms of resources, such as the best ponies and all the dogs and motor sledges ...
Marks' death was due to methanol poisoning, and the case received media attention as the "first South Pole murder", [44] although there is no evidence that Marks died as the result of the act of another person. [45] [46] On 26 April 2001, Kenn Borek Air used a DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft to rescue Dr. Ronald Shemenski from Amundsen–Scott.
Roald Amundsen: Norway 1928 Explorer Latham 47: Barents Sea: Disappearance An Chang-nam: Korea 1930 Aviator Taiyuan, China [3] Maxie Anderson: United States 1983 Record-setting hot-air balloonist: Hot-air balloon: Near Bad Brückenau, West Germany Gondola release mechanism malfunction Scott D. Anderson: United States 1999 Minnesota Air National ...
The exact cause of Marks' death could not be determined until his body was removed from Amundsen–Scott Station and flown off the continent for autopsy. [9] The case received media attention as the "first South Pole murder", [3] as suicide was considered the least likely cause of his death. [10]
Bradley's cause of death is undetermined, [241] as the autopsy could not reveal what he died from, so his death remains a mystery. The Peter Bergmann case is an unsolved mystery pertaining to the death of an unidentified man in County Sligo , Ireland, whose naked body was found on a beach; the autopsy found no signs of drowning or foul play and ...
Left to right: Roald Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting after first reaching the South Pole on 16 December 1911. The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was an era in the exploration of the continent of Antarctica which began at the end of the 19th century, and ended after the First World War; the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922 is often cited by historians ...