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Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928 ) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.
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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.
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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 16
* July 16 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer ( d. 1928 )
With a multinational crew, which included Roald Amundsen, Frederick Cook, Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski, Henryk Arctowski and Emil Racoviţă, he set sail from Antwerp on 16 August 1897.
With a multinational crew, which included Roald Amundsen, Frederick Cook and Henryk Arctowski, they set sail from Antwerp on 16 August 1897.
On 16 January 1912, as Scott's party neared the Pole, it was Bowers who first spotted a black flag left at a camp made by Roald Amundsen's polar party over a month previously.
Roald and July
Roald Hoffmann ( born July 18, 1937 ) is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Aylesbury hosts the Roald Dahl Festival, a procession of giant puppets based on his characters, on July 2.
Roald and 1872
* June 18 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer ( b. 1872 )
* Roald Amundsen ( 1872 – 1928 ) – Norwegian explorer.
* Roald Amundsen ( 1872 – 1928 ), Norwegian explorer of polar region
* Roald Amundsen ( 1872 – 1928 ): Norwegian – First Mate.
Roald and –
* 1948 – Roald Als, Danish cartoonist
* 1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
* 1937 – Roald Hoffmann, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
* 1916 – Roald Dahl, English pilot, author, and screenwriter ( d. 1990 )
* December 14 – Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole.
* April 2 – Roald Als, Danish cartoonist
* September 13 – Roald Dahl, Welsh author ( d. 1990 )
* Chemistry – Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
* Roald Dahl ( 1916 – 1990 ), author, visited his grandparents and summered at the Strand Hotel in Fevik in Grimstad
* Sverre Hassel ( 1876 – 1928 ), polar explorer who accompanied Roald Amundsen to the South Pole
* November 23 – Roald Dahl, author
* Roald Dahl – Matilda
* Roald Dahl – Danny, the Champion of the World
* Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
* Roald Dahl – Fantastic Mr Fox
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