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Amundsen ’ s success was publicly announced on 7 March 1912, when he arrived at Hobart, Australia.
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" Amundsen renamed the Antarctic Plateau as King Haakon VII ’ s Plateau.
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.
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 success
Five hundred miles ( 800 km ) away, Eagle City, Alaska, had a telegraph station ; Amundsen travelled there ( and back ) overland to wire a success message ( collect ) on 5 December 1905.
** Roald Amundsen in Hobart, Tasmania, announces his success in reaching the South Pole the previous December.
Amundsen left his men on board and spent much of the winter skiing 500 miles south to Eagle, Alaska to telegraph news of the expedition's success.
Amundsen and was
Sought by explorers for centuries as a possible trade route, it was first navigated by Roald Amundsen in 1903 – 1906.
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.
During the research for his dual biography of Scott and Roald Amundsen, polar historian Roland Huntford investigated a possible scandal in Scott's early naval career, related to the period 1889 – 90 when Scott was a lieutenant on.
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.
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928 ) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.
Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Amundsen was born to a family of Norwegian shipowners and captains in Borge, between the towns Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg.
His father was Jens Amundsen.
His mother chose to keep him out of the maritime industry of the family and pressured him to become a doctor, a promise that Amundsen kept until his mother died when he was aged 21, whereupon he quit university for a life at sea.
After a third winter trapped in the ice, Amundsen was able to navigate a passage into the Beaufort Sea after which he cleared into the Bering Strait, thus having successfully navigated the Northwest Passage.
It was at this time that Amundsen received news that Norway had formally become independent of Sweden and had a new king.
Amundsen sent the new King Haakon VII news that it " was a great achievement for Norway ".
In 1918, Amundsen began an expedition with a new ship Maud, which was to last until 1925.
This part was led by Amundsen.
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.
It is believed that the plane crashed in fog in the Barents Sea, and that Amundsen was killed in the crash, or died shortly afterwards.
The search for Amundsen was called off in September by the Norwegian Government.
* Writer Roald Dahl was named after Amundsen
* Nobel Laureate, Chemist and Poet Roald Hoffmann was named after Amundsen
Hoffmann was born in Zolochiv ,( Ukraine ) to a Jewish family and was named in honor of the Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen.
Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
In 1913 Peary was photographed with North Pole explorer Roald Amundsen and South Pole explorer Ernest Shackleton
Amundsen and on
The McMurdo – South Pole Highway is a 900-mile ( 1450 km ) road in Antarctica linking the United States McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station.
The chosen group marched on, reaching the Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that Amundsen had preceded them by five weeks.
Scott's group took this photograph of themselves using a string to operate the shutter on 17 January 1912, the day after they discovered Amundsen had reached the pole first.
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 ".
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 ".
"</ 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.
Further, Amundsen eschewed the heavy wool clothing worn on earlier Antarctic attempts in favour of Eskimo-style skins.
Using skis and dog sleds for transportation, Amundsen and his men created supply depots at 80 °, 81 ° and 82 ° South on the Barrier, along a line directly south to the Pole.
Amundsen also planned to kill some of his dogs on the way and use them as a source for fresh meat.
A second attempt with a team, consisting of Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, Oscar Wisting, and Amundsen himself, departed on 19 October 1911.
Amundsen named their South Pole camp Polheim, " Home on the Pole.
With him on this expedition were Oscar Wisting and Helmer Hanssen, both of whom had accompanied Amundsen to the South Pole.
To raise additional funds, Amundsen travelled around the United States in 1924 on a lecture tour.
Many of these carefully collected scientific data had been lost during the ill-fated journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, two crew members sent on a mission by Amundsen, but they were later retrieved by Russian scientist Nikolay Urvantsev as they lay abandoned on the Kara Sea shores.
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.
* The Last Place on Earth a TV series based on the book, Scott and Amundsen, by Roland Huntford
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