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Amundsen ’ s expedition benefited from careful preparation, good equipment, appropriate clothing, a simple primary task ( Amundsen did no surveying on his route south and is known to have taken only two photographs ), an understanding of dogs and their handling, and the effective use of skis.
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" Amundsen renamed the Antarctic Plateau as King Haakon VII ’ s Plateau.
Amundsen ’ s success was publicly announced on 7 March 1912, when he arrived at Hobart, Australia.
In contrast to the misfortunes of Scott ’ s team, Amundsen ’ s trek proved rather smooth and uneventful.
In Amundsen ’ s own words:
The report about this journey closed with a quotation by Helmer Hanssen, who had been responsible for the welfare of the sled dogs in Amundsen ’ s South Pole team:
Amundsen and expedition
On its return to base, the expedition learned of the presence of Amundsen, camped with his crew and a large contingent of dogs in the Bay of Whales, 200 miles ( 320 km ) to their east.
An article in The Times, reporting on the glowing tributes paid to Scott in the New York press, claimed that both Amundsen and Shackleton were " to hear that such a disaster could overtake a well-organized expedition ".
Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Amundsen had hidden a lifelong desire inspired by Fridtjof Nansen's crossing of Greenland in 1888 and the doomed Franklin expedition.
In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson ), with six others in a 45-ton fishing vessel, Gjøa.
"</ tt > The expedition arrived at the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf ( then known as " the Great Ice Barrier ") at a large inlet called the Bay of Whales on 14 January 1911, where Amundsen located his base camp and named it Framheim.
Amundsen wrote about the expedition in The South Pole: an account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the " Fram ", 1910 – 12, published in 1912.
In 1918, Amundsen began an expedition with a new ship Maud, which was to last until 1925.
With him on this expedition were Oscar Wisting and Helmer Hanssen, both of whom had accompanied Amundsen to the South Pole.
Captain Roald Amundsen at the wheel during the North Pole expedition, 1920
If the Norge expedition was actually the first to the North Pole, Amundsen and Oscar Wisting would therefore be the first persons to reach each geographical pole, by ground or by air, as the case may be.
* Gjennem luften til 88 ° Nord ( by Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and other members of the expedition, 1925 ).
Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Having first worked in Bergen and Leipzig he was the scientific director of the North Polar expedition of Roald Amundsen aboard the Maud from 1918 to 1925.
Roald Amundsen started his South Pole expedition in 1911 from the Bay of Whales, which was located at the shelf.
Roald Amundsen used a team of sled dogs led by a Samoyed named Etah on the first expedition to reach the South Pole.
On the island of Vadsøya is the airship mast used by Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen for their expedition over the North Pole with the airship Norge in 1926, and used again on Nobile's flight with the airship Italia in 1928.
Other famous ships included the RMS Carpathia which rescued the survivors from the Titanic in 1912, and the icebreaker Krasin ( launched as Sviatogor ) which rescued the Umberto Nobile expedition on Spitsbergen in 1928, when Roald Amundsen perished.
Amundsen and Wisting had both been members of the first expedition to the South Pole, December 1911.
Crary was the seventh expedition leader to arrive at the South Pole by surface transportation ( the six others before him were — in sequence — Amundsen, Scott, Hillary, Fuchs, a Russian expedition in 1959 / 60 from Vostok base, and Havola ).
On the Bygdøy peninsula are located the Viking ship Museum, Norsk Folkemuseum ( Norwegian Museum of Cultural History ), the Maritime Museum, the Kon-Tiki Museum and the ship Fram, used by Roald Amundsen for his Antarctic expedition.
Its name honors Roald Amundsen whose Norwegian expedition reached the South Pole in December 1911, and Robert F. Scott whose British expedition of five men reached the South Pole about one month later ( in January 1912 ) in a race to become the first man ever to reach the south pole.
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Their homeland – the Inuvialuit Settlement Region – covers the Arctic Ocean coastline area from the Alaskan border east to Amundsen Gulf and includes the western Canadian Arctic Islands.
In 1906, Roald Amundsen first successfully completed a path from Greenland to Alaska in the sloop Gjøa.
According to some, the first consistent, verified, and scientifically convincing attainment of the Pole was on 12 May 1926, by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his US sponsor Lincoln Ellsworth from the airship Norge.
Even before Scott's death was known, Amundsen had been offended by what he felt was a " sneering toast "' from RGS President Lord Curzon, at a meeting held supposedly to honour the polar victor.
In 1979 came the most sustained attack on Scott, from Roland Huntford's dual biography Scott and Amundsen in which Scott is depicted as a " heroic bungler ".
During this time Amundsen learned from the local Netsilik people about Arctic survival skills that would later prove useful.
Amundsen considered him to be in breach of contract, and as such, dismissed him from the crew.
Amundsen and Oskar Omdal, of the Royal Norwegian Navy, attempted to fly from Wainwright, Alaska, to Spitsbergen across the North Pole.
Amundsen and his crew worked for over three weeks to clean up an airstrip to take off from ice.
Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission with Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen, looking for missing members of Nobile's crew, whose new airship Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole.
* Amundsen Gulf, in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the Northwest Territories in Canada ( separating Banks Island and the western parts of Victoria Island from the mainland )
On the west are Amundsen Gulf and Banks Island, which is separated from Victoria by a long sound called the Prince of Wales Strait.
It is separated from Victoria Island to its east by the Prince of Wales Strait and from the mainland by Amundsen Gulf to its south.
Banks Island is home to two thirds of the world's population of lesser snow geese, which make their way across the Amundsen Gulf from the mainland.
Based aboard the research icebreaker, CCGS Amundsen, the CFL project examined the “ flaw lead ” system, a circumpolar phenomenon created when the central Arctic ice pack moves away from coastal ice, leaving areas of open water.
All personnel and cargo going to or coming from Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station first pass through McMurdo.
South Pole employees remove snow from the top of buildings at the Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station during the winter darkness.
* 1928 Casco, adhesives factory, producing of casein glue, founded by Lars Amundsen ( son of brother to Roald Amundsen, the first person at the South Pole )-with help from Marcus Wallenberg-in Kristinehamn
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