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  2. Roald Amundsen - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Amundsen's South Pole expedition - Wikipedia

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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 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.

  4. Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions - Wikipedia

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    During depot laying in February 1911, Roald Amundsen had his first (and last) 290 kilometres (180 mi) of his route marked like a Norwegian ski course using marker flags initially every 13 kilometres (8 mi). He added to this by using food containers painted black, resulting in a marker every mile.

  5. Northwest Passage - Wikipedia

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    Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen was the first to sail through the Northwest Passage in 1903–1906. Amundsen's Gjøa was the first vessel to transit the passage. The first explorer to conquer the Northwest Passage solely by ship was the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. In a three-year journey between 1903 and 1906, Amundsen explored ...

  6. Roald Amundsen Didn’t Reach the Poles by Being a Nice Guy

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    Bettmann via GettyThe great polar explorer Roald Amundsen stood by himself on the frozen Arctic shore, staring into the distance. He was fifty-three years old—but looked seventy-five—and ...

  7. List of Arctic expeditions - Wikipedia

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    1903–1906: Roald Amundsen's Gjøa expedition – first Northwest Passage traversal; ... British North Greenland expedition was a British scientific mission, ...

  8. Norge (airship) - Wikipedia

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    Norge was the first Italian semi-rigid to be fitted with the cruciform tail fins first developed by the Schütte-Lanz company. [citation needed] On 15 April 1924, the N-1 was carried away from its base at Ciampino aerodrome by a violent wind gust. Two soldiers and a mechanic, who were unable to let go from the mooring lines, were carried 300 ...

  9. List of Antarctic expeditions - Wikipedia

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    1910–1912 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition – On 14 December 1911, reached the South Pole (90° S) 1910–1913 – Terra Nova Expedition – On 17 January 1912, Robert Falcon Scott, reached the South Pole (90° S) 1911–1913 – Second German Antarctic Expedition – led by Wilhelm Filchner