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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.
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Amundsen and disappeared
A pilot, he disappeared, flying a " Latham47 " in the Arctic in 1928 with Roald Amundsen. 1
* The flyingboat " Latham ", used by arctic explorer Roald Amundsen when he disappeared during the search for Umberto Nobile in 1928.
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.
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.
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 ".
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.
"</ 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.
Amundsen ’ s success was publicly announced on 7 March 1912, when he arrived at Hobart, Australia.
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.
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.
* The Last Place on Earth a TV series based on the book, Scott and Amundsen, by Roland Huntford
Amundsen and 18
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928 ) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.
* June 18 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer ( b. 1872 )
79 days later, Wilson was one of the five-man Polar party that reached the Pole on 18 January 1912, only to find the pole had been claimed by Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his team just 5 weeks earlier.
* June 18 – A Latham 47 flying boat carrying Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen and five others on a flight to search for survivors of the Italian airship Italia disappears.
* 18 June-Roald Amundsen and five others disappear on a flight to Spitsbergen to aid in rescue operations.
On December 18, 1911, Amundsen's expedition left Polheim, leaving behind his reserve tent, along with a letter for Scott and a letter intended for Scott to deliver to King Haakon VII in the event that Amundsen failed to return.
On 18 January they arrived at the South Pole to find a tent left behind by Amundsen's party at their Polheim camp and inside a dated note informing them that Amundsen had reached the Pole on 14 December 1911, beating Scott's party by 35 days.
Amundsen and June
Amundsen returned to Maud, which now lay in Nome, in June 1922.
* June 9-Signe Amundsen, operatic soprano ( died 1987 )
Dr. Jerri Lin Nielsen ( née Cahill ; March 1, 1952 – June 23, 2009 ) was an American physician with extensive ER experience, who in 1998 was hired to spend a year at the Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station, as the station's only doctor.
Amundsen and 1928
* 1872 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer ( d. 1928 )
* July 16 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer ( d. 1928 )
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.
* Sverre Hassel ( 1876 – 1928 ), polar explorer who accompanied Roald Amundsen to the South Pole
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.
* Roald Amundsen ( 1872 – 1928 ) – Norwegian explorer.
Built in 1928, the Amundsen, on different occasions reportedly carried Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower
* 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
Named for the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen by the Norwegian expedition of 1928 – 29, under Captain Nils Larsen, while exploring this area in February, 1929.
* Roald Amundsen ( 1872 – 1928 ), Norwegian explorer of polar region
* Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, First Crossing of the Polar Sea, Doubleday, Garden City, 1928.
Sverre Hassel died in 1928 while visiting his old friend Amundsen.
* Roald Amundsen ( 1872 – 1928 ): Norwegian – First Mate.
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