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The Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station was erected as the first permanent structure at the South Pole in January 1957.
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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.
Their homeland – the Inuvialuit Settlement Region – covers the Arctic Ocean coastline area from the Alaskan border east to Amundsen Gulf and includes the western Canadian Arctic Islands.
* 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.
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 routes to the South Pole taken by Scott ( green ) and Amundsen ( red ), 1911 – 1912.
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928 ) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.
Amundsen wrote about the expedition in The South Pole: an account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the " Fram ", 1910 – 12, published in 1912.
* The Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station is named jointly with his rival
* Scott and Amundsen – Duel in the Ice by Rainer-K. Langner, Haus Publishing, London, 2007, ISBN 978-1-905791-08-8
* 70South – information on Roald Amundsen
** 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.
* June 18 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer ( b. 1872 )
* July 16 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer ( d. 1928 )
* Ole Amundsen Buslett ( 1855 – 1924 )-Norwegian-American author, newspaperman, and politician.
* Sverre Hassel ( 1876 – 1928 ), polar explorer who accompanied Roald Amundsen to the South Pole
All personnel and cargo going to or coming from Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station first pass through McMurdo.
* Roald Amundsen ( 1872 – 1928 ) – Norwegian explorer.
The Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station is an American scientific research station at the Geographic South Pole, the southernmost place on the Earth.
Amundsen and Scott
Scott refused to amend his schedule to deal with the Amundsen threat, writing, " The proper, as well as the wiser course, is for us to proceed exactly as though this had not happened ".
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 ".
On learning the details of Scott's death, Amundsen is reported as saying, " I would gladly forgo any honour or money if thereby I could have saved Scott his terrible death ".
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 ".
Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
At Madeira, Amundsen alerted his men that they would be heading to Antarctica in addition to sending a telegram to Scott notifying him simply: < tt >" BEG TO INFORM YOU FRAM PROCEEDING ANTARCTIC -- AMUNDSEN.
In contrast to the misfortunes of Scott ’ s team, Amundsen ’ s trek proved rather smooth and uneventful.
* Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions
* The Last Place on Earth a TV series based on the book, Scott and Amundsen, by Roland Huntford
* The Last Place On Earth 1985 serial depicting the race between Amundsen ( played by Sverre Anker Ousdal ) and Scott.
Norwegian Roald Amundsen finally reached the Pole on December 14, 1911, following a dramatic race with the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott.
Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
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.
It was widely adopted as a high-energy food by Europeans involved in the fur trade and later by Arctic and Antarctic explorers, such as Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen.
Amundsen and South
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 named their South Pole camp Polheim, " Home on the Pole.
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
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.
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.
Roald Amundsen used a team of sled dogs led by a Samoyed named Etah on the first expedition to reach the South Pole.
Amundsen and Wisting had both been members of the first expedition to the South Pole, December 1911.
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