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Roald Amundsen started his South Pole expedition in 1911 from the Bay of Whales, which was located at the shelf.
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Roald and Amundsen
* 1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
* 1903 – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
* 1872 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer ( d. 1928 )
Sought by explorers for centuries as a possible trade route, it was first navigated by Roald Amundsen in 1903 – 1906.
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.
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.
Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928 ) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.
Roald Amundsen as a young boy in Christiania, 1875
Portraits of Roald Amundsen
He said he hoped to do more and signed it " Your loyal subject, Roald Amundsen.
Roald Amundsen and his crew looking at the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, 1911
Roald Amundsen
Captain Roald Amundsen at the wheel during the North Pole expedition, 1920
* The Royal Norwegian Navy is building a class of Aegis frigates, the second of which, is the HNoMS Roald Amundsen ( completed 2006 )
* The German brig Roald Amundsen
* Writer Roald Dahl was named after Amundsen
* Nobel Laureate, Chemist and Poet Roald Hoffmann was named after Amundsen
* Gjennem luften til 88 ° Nord ( by Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and other members of the expedition, 1925 ).
* Roald Amundsen, a full biography by Tor Bomann-Larsen, 2006, ISBN 0-7509-4343-2
* Roald Amundsen article at south-pole. com
* 70South – information on Roald Amundsen
* Roald Amundsen At Find A Grave
* Villemont Roald Amundsen Legacy at VILLEMONT
Roald and started
Roald started at the Elmtree House Primary School when he was six years old.
She started playing beach volleyball during the summer of 1995, and between 1995 to 2001 she played with Lise Roald Hansen as partner.
Roald and South
* 1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
* 1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
During this second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition.
* December 14 – Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches 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
After the race to the South Pole ended in 1912 with Roald Amundsen's conquest, Shackleton turned his attention to what he said was the one remaining great object of Antarctic journeying — the crossing of the continent from sea to sea, via the pole.
In 1913 Peary was photographed with North Pole explorer Roald Amundsen and South Pole explorer Ernest Shackleton
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.
By the end of the era, Louis Blériot had crossed the English Channel by air, the largest ship in the world, RMS Olympic, had sailed on its maiden voyage, automobiles were common, and the South Pole was reached for the first time by Roald Amundsen's and then Robert Falcon Scott's teams.
* 1910: * 1922: Roald Amundsen uses skis on his South Pole Expedition.
Roald Amundsen used a team of sled dogs led by a Samoyed named Etah on the first expedition to reach the South Pole.
* Etah, the lead dog for Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole, the first to reach the pole.
* Sverre Hassel ( 1876 – 1928 ), polar explorer who accompanied Roald Amundsen to the South Pole
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.
Among the most famous episodes remains writer Roald Dahl's " Man from the South " ( 1960 ) starring Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre, in which a man bets his finger that he can start his lighter ten times in a row.
* 1909-1910: Horlicks became popular as a provision for North Pole and South Pole expeditions by Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Falcon Scott.
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.
* December 14-Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and a team of four become the first people to reach the South Pole.
In 1910 British polar explorer Robert Scott hoped to be the first to reach the South Pole, but was beaten by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.
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