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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.
His father, Martin Rønne (1861–1932), was a polar explorer who served in Roald Amundsen's successful expedition to the South Pole. Ronne received his education in engineering at Horten Technical College. [1] In 1923 Finn Ronne immigrated to the U.S. and gained citizenship in 1929.
Roald Dahl [a] (13 September 1916 ... Dahl was born in Wales to affluent Norwegian immigrant parents, ... Dahl was named after Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen ...
2015. Hoffmann was born in Złoczów, Poland (now Zolochiv, Ukraine), to a Polish-Jewish family, and was named in honor of the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.His parents were Clara (Rosen), a teacher, and Hillel Safran, a civil engineer. [7]
On December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the geographic South Pole, part of a tragic race against Britain's Robert Scott who died of exhaustion and cold on the return ...
Dietrichson participated in Roald Amundsen's North Pole expedition in 1925, which reached 87° 43' N.On 21 1925 May two Dornier Wal aircraft boats, N-24 and N-25, took off from Ny-Ålesund on the island of Spitsbergen. N 24 was led by Dietrichson, with Lincoln Ellesworth as a navigator and Oskar Omdal as a mechanic.
His father spent US$100,000 ($1.74 million in 2023) to fund Roald Amundsen's 1925 attempt to fly from Svalbard to the North Pole. Amundsen, accompanied by Lincoln Ellsworth, pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen , flight mechanic Karl Feucht , and two other team members, set out in two Dornier Wal flying boats, the N24 and N25, in an attempted to reach ...
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