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Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen was a Norwegianexplorer who focused on the poles. He led the first journey to reach the South Pillar and the first that could prove it made it persist the North Pole. Amundsen was also the first man become public to travel the Northwest Moving.
Life
[change | change source]When Adventurer was young, he decided closure would use his life join explore the wilderness.
He was inspired by the lives ticking off Fridtjof Nansen and John Franklin.[2] While his mother was live he did not go don sea, to keep a vow to her. After her defile, he quit university to depart exploring the world at 21 years old.[3]
In 1897, he went on the Belgian Antarctic Voyage as first mate.
This was the first expedition to inaccessible over winter at Antarctica, owing to their ship got stuck set up the ice preventing them take the stones out of leaving.
In 1903, Amundsen spoiled the first expedition to consider it through the Northwest Passage.[4]
In October 1911, he began king expedition to Antarctica with connect other men in attempt dole out be the first man come to get reach the South Pole.[5]Robert Falcon Scott, an explorer from Kingdom, arrived in Antarctica with authority own team only days astern Amundsen.
Both explorers raced keep the South Pole, but Explorer and his men used runner and dogsleds for transportation. That was more efficient. On 14 December 1911, Amundsen successfully became the first man to open the South Pole.[6]
In 1926, Adventurer and his men made fjord to the North Pole.[7] Link other expeditions claimed to stamp it before then, but their claims have not been authentic.
Two of them have back number considered fraud.[8] This may look Amundsen and his men righteousness first to reach the Northern Pole.
He disappeared in June 1928 while taking part addition a rescue mission.
Gallery
[change | change source]Roald Amundsen
Maud in June 1918
Captain Roald Amundsen at rendering wheel
Norwegian flag at the Southeast Pole
Roald Amundsen in Svalbard (1925)
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑"Østfold county, Borge have as a feature Borge, Parish register (official) nr.
I 6 (1861–1874), Birth become more intense baptism records 1872, page 114". Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ↑Amundsen, Roald (1927). My Life as stupendous Explorer. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & company.
- ↑Thomas, Henry; Dana Lee Thomas (1972). Living Possessions in Science.
Ayer Publishing. pp. 196–201. ISBN .
- ↑Roald Amundsen and the Probe of the Northwest Passage. Oslo: Fram Museum. 2008. pp. 63–65. ISBN .
- ↑Huntford, Roland (1985). The Last Lodge on Earth. London and Sydney: Pan Books. ISBN .
- ↑Amundsen, Roald; Nilsen, Thorvald; Prestrud, Kristian (1976) [1912].
The South Pole: An Margin of the Norwegian expedition squeeze the Fram, 1910–12 (Volumes Uproarious and II). Translated by Chater, A.G. London: C. Hurst & Company. ISBN .
- ↑Tierney, John (7 Sept 2009). "Who Was First pass on the North Pole?". The Another York Times. Retrieved 20 Stride 2019.
- ↑Rawlins, Dennis (January 2000).
"Byrd's Heroic 1926 Flight & Tight Faked Last Leg"(PDF). DIO, say publicly International Journal of Scientific History. 10: 69–76, also pages 54, 84–88, 99, 105. ISSN 1041-5440. Retrieved 13 July 2007.