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Roald Amundsen used a team of sled dogs led by a Samoyed named Etah on the first expedition to reach the South Pole.
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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 used
Dog sleds were used by most others, such as Roald Amundsen.
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.
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.
Bygdøy has several museums, like the Kon-Tiki Museum, which shows all year long the legendary expeditions of Thor Heyerdahl ; the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History ( Norsk Folkemuseum ); the Viking Ship Museum ; the Norwegian Maritime Museum and the ship Fram, used by Roald Amundsen.
On the Bygdøy peninsula are located the Viking ship Museum, Norsk Folkemuseum ( Norwegian Museum of Cultural History ), the Maritime Museum, the Kon-Tiki Museum and the ship Fram, used by Roald Amundsen for his Antarctic expedition.
The Whangdoodle is a fanciful creature, as described in folklore and children's literature, most notably used by British authors Roald Dahl and Julie Andrews.
Roald Amundsen used the Greenland Dogs as well on his expedition to the Antarctic.
* The flyingboat " Latham ", used by arctic explorer Roald Amundsen when he disappeared during the search for Umberto Nobile in 1928.
Children's author Roald Dahl, prior to his writing fame, used to sell kerosene in Midsomer Norton and the surrounding area in the 1930s.
* Maud, a ship used from 1918 to 1925 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in exploring the Northeast Passage ( now known as the Northern Sea Route )
The female gremlin Fifinella was conceived by Roald Dahl and drawn by Walt Disney, and used as the official WASP mascot that appeared on their shoulder patches.
The method was first used by Roald Hoffmann who developed, with Robert Burns Woodward, rules for elucidating reaction mechanisms ( the Woodward – Hoffmann rules ).
Roald Dahl had developed the character within the bedtime stories which he used to tell to his own children.
* In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator ( 1972 ), Willy Wonka says that Venus used to be home to an alien race before they were " gobbled up " by vermicious knids.
Peasedown St John was one of several local villages where in the 1930s budding children's author Roald Dahl used to sell kerosene.
Roald and team
* 1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
However, they reached the pole a month after Roald Amundsen and his team, who had climbed the previously unknown Axel Heiberg Glacier.
* December 14-Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and a team of four become the first people to reach the South Pole.
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.
The team appeared multiple times at Madison Square Garden, which was being managed by Tom Rickard, formerly of Nome, and where Togo was awarded a gold medal by Roald Amundsen.
The profiles of Roald Poulsen's team included, apart from Lars Høgh, the midfielder Ulrik Moseby, the big defender Johnny Hansen, and the young forward Per Pedersen, who became the most expensive OB player sold, when he was bought by English team Blackburn Rovers for £ 2. 3 million in 1997.
He became European Champion in 1956, and won Olympic gold in the 500 meter and 1, 500 meter events in both 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics ( sharing the 1, 500 meter victories with respectively Yuri Mikhailov and Roald Aas ), competing for the USSR team.
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