"</ 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.

* 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

* 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.

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.

Roald Amundsen used a team of sled dogs led by a Samoyed named Etah on the first expedition to reach the South Pole.

Each of the installations containing these central units has been named the Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station.

Amundsen is a large lunar impact crater located near the south pole of the Moon, named after the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.

The probes were named " Scott " and " Amundsen ", in honor of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, the first explorers to reach the Earth's South Pole.

West of Cape Dart is no named marginal sea of the Southern Ocean between Amundsen Sea and Ross Sea.

Discovered by Roald Amundsen in 1911, and named by him for Fridtjof Nansen, polar explorer, who helped support Amundsen's expedition.

Amundsen insisted in the contract that Nobile should be the pilot and that five of the crew should be Italian ; Amundsen named the airship Norge ( Norway ).

Somewhat farther away, on the eastern hemisphere of the lunar near side, are the larger craters Amundsen and Scott, named after two other early explorers of the Antarctic continent.

This huge glacier was discovered in November 1911 by the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, and named by him for Axel Heiberg, a Norwegian businessman and patron of science, who contributed to numerous Norwegian polar expeditions.

During his quest for the South Pole, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen established a temporary base, which he named Framheim, at the Bay of Whales.

Discovered in 1911 by Roald Amundsen on the way to the South Pole, and named by him for the then Crown Prince Olav of Norway.

The name Gjoa Haven is from the Norwegian " Gjøahavn " or " Gjøa's Harbour ", and was named by polar explorer Roald Amundsen after his ship Gjøa.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Explorers like Roald Amundsen, Umberto Nobile and Fridtjof Nansen made use of the know-how in Tromsø on the conditions in the Arctic, and often recruited their crew in the city.

Amundsen had previously in spring 1925 flown to within 150 nautical miles ( 280 km ) of the North Pole, in a pair of Italian-built Dornier Wal flying boats along with the American millionaire-adventurer Lincoln Ellsworth, the pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, but their planes were forced to land near 88 degrees North and the six men were trapped on the ice for 30 days.

The placement of Scott, both in relation to Amundsen and the lunar south pole, relates to the Antarctic explorers Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott, and their race to be the first humans to reach the south pole of the Earth.

Following their return to Tromsø in September, Amundsen set about remedying the deficiencies in Gjøa that the trip had exposed.

From these calculations, Amundsen determined that their current position was approximately 5. 5 miles from the mathematical South Pole point.

Five first-person narratives give different perspectives on the voyage: Petty Officer Taff Evans ; the ship's scholar, medic, and biologist Dr. Edward Wilson ; Robert Falcon Scott ; Lieutenant Henry Bowers ; and Captain Lawrence Oates each give their account of the hardships, the problems, and finally the failure of their endeavour: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beats them to the South Pole by a month.

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.

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.

* 1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

The routes to the South Pole taken by Scott ( green ) and Amundsen ( red ), 1911 – 1912.

Roald Amundsen and his crew looking at the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, 1911

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 wrote about the expedition in The South Pole: an account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the " Fram ", 1910 – 12, published in 1912.

With him on this expedition were Oscar Wisting and Helmer Hanssen, both of whom had accompanied Amundsen to the South Pole.

** Roald Amundsen in Hobart, Tasmania, announces his success in reaching the South Pole the previous December.

March 7: Roald Amundsen | Amundsen and the South Pole

** A United States Navy team becomes the third group to reach the South Pole ( arriving by air ) and commences construction of the first permanent Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station.

In 1913 Peary was photographed with North Pole explorer Roald Amundsen and South Pole explorer Ernest Shackleton

The Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station was erected as the first permanent structure at the South Pole in January 1957.

Roald Amundsen started his South Pole expedition in 1911 from the Bay of Whales, which was located at the shelf.

* 1910: * 1922: Roald Amundsen uses skis on his South Pole Expedition.

* Sverre Hassel ( 1876 – 1928 ), polar explorer who accompanied Roald Amundsen to the South Pole

Amundsen and Wisting had both been members of the first expedition to the South Pole, December 1911.