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Amundsen Glacier () is a major Antarctic glacier, about 6 to 10 km ( 4 to 6 mi ) wide and 128 km ( 80 mi ) long, originating on the polar plateau where it drains the area to the south and west of Nilsen Plateau, and descending through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf just west of the MacDonald Nunataks.
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* Amundsen Glacier, in Antarctica
However, they reached the pole a month after Roald Amundsen and his team, who had climbed the previously unknown Axel Heiberg Glacier.
Robert Scott returned to the Beardmore in 1911, while Roald Amundsen crossed the range via the Axel Heiberg Glacier.
* Amundsen Glacier
* Brown Peaks, a series of low peaks surmounting the Amundsen Glacier in Antarctica
* Amundsen Glacier, descending from the Queen Maud Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf
Captain Roald Amundsen and his South Pole party ascended Axel Heiberg Glacier near the central part of this group in November 1911, naming these mountains for Queen Maud of Norway.
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They lie just east of Cranton Bay and Pine Island Bay at the eastern extremity of Amundsen Sea, and are bounded on the north by Cosgrove Ice Shelf and on the south by Pine Island Glacier.
* Mount Wisting – the northwesternmost summit of the massif at the head of Amundsen Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains.
* Mount Hassel — peak at the northeasternmost summit of the massif at the head of Amundsen Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains in Antarctica.
Smith Glacier is a low-gradient Antarctic glacier, over 160 km ( 100 mi ) long, draining from Toney Mountain in an ENE direction to Amundsen Sea.
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The square-sterned sloop of 45 net register tonnage () was built by Kurt Johannesson Skaale in Rosendal, Norway in 1872, the same year Amundsen was born.
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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.
Scott refused to amend his schedule to deal with the Amundsen threat, writing, " The proper, as well as the wiser course, is for us to proceed exactly as though this had not happened ".
On learning the details of Scott's death, Amundsen is reported as saying, " I would gladly forgo any honour or money if thereby I could have saved Scott his terrible death ".
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 ".
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.
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 Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station is named jointly with his rival
* A large crater covering the Moon's south pole is named Amundsen
* The Canadian Coast Guard named an icebreaker CCGS Amundsen, whose mission is to perform scientific research in the waters of the Arctic
* The Royal Norwegian Navy is building a class of Aegis frigates, the second of which, is the HNoMS Roald Amundsen ( completed 2006 )
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The King Haakon VII Sea in East Antarctica is named in the king's honour as well as the entire plateau surrounding the South Pole was named King Haakon VII Vidde by Roald Amundsen when he in 1911 became the first human to reach the South Pole.
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.
The Balleny corridor through the Southern Ocean would be used by future explorers such as Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Richard Byrd, and is used today by surface vessels resupplying McMurdo and other scientific bases located in and around the Ross Sea sector of Antarctica.
Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen lived in Svartskog and his house is presently a museum, administered by the municipality.
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.
If Byrd and Bennett did not reach the North Pole, it is extremely likely that the first flight over the Pole occurred a few days later, on May 12, 1926 with the flight of the airship Norge and its crew of Roald Amundsen, Umberto Nobile, Oscar Wisting, and others.
The Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station is an American scientific research station at the Geographic South Pole, the southernmost place on the Earth.
The Amundsen – Scott South Pole Scientific Station is the southernmost place on Earth.
The 2009 film Whiteout is mainly set at the Amundsen – Scott base, although the building layouts are completely different.
Amundsen is a large lunar impact crater located near the south pole of the Moon, named after the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.
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Roald Amundsen successfully employed them to reach the South Pole, whereas Robert Falcon Scott lacked experience in handling these animals, a major reason why he lost the race to Amundsen.
The ice sheet which drains into the Amundsen Sea averages about in thickness ; is roughly the size of the state of Texas and the area is known as the Amundsen Sea Embayment ( ASE ); it forms one of the three major ice drainage basins of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The ice sheet which drains into the Amundsen Sea averages about in thickness ; is roughly the size of the state of Texas and the area is known as the Amundsen Sea Embayment ( ASE ); it forms one of the three major ice drainage basins of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the others being the Ross Sea Embayment and the Weddell Sea Embayment.
Footwear and the risk of frostbite was a major concern for Amundsen, especially after some negative experiences during the autumn depot-laying trips and the abortive first attempt to reach the Pole.
He was a member of three of the four major British expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott's 1911 – 13 Terra Nova Expedition, which saw the race to reach the South Pole lost to Roald Amundsen and ended in the deaths of Scott and his polar party.
Composer Marc Blitzstein was reportedly so delighted with Amundsen that he expanded her role in Juno ( musical ) to include three major songs: I Wish It So, For Love, and My True Heart, as well as a duet with Shirley Booth, The Bird Upon The Tree.
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