Amundsen wrote: " Along its outer edge the Barrier shows an even, flat surface ; but here, inside the bay, the conditions were entirely different.

Roald Amundsen wrote about the expedition in Sydpolen published in two volumes in 1912 – 1913.

Oscar Wisting wrote about his experiences with Roald Amundsen in 19 Ar Med Roald Amundsen ( Oslo: Glydendal Norsk Forlag. 1930 ).

Roald Amundsen wrote about the expedition in Sydpolen published in two volumes in 1912 – 1913.

Roald Amundsen wrote about the expedition in Sydpolen published in two volumes in 1912 – 1913.

A few weeks later, in Montevideo, Amundsen wrote in his diary that he had never seen so many beautiful women ' in one place at the same time '.

Roald Amundsen wrote about the expedition in Sydpolen published in two volumes in 1912 – 1913.

During this time Amundsen learned from the local Netsilik people about Arctic survival skills that would later prove useful.

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.

An aerial view of the Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station taken in about 1983.

The report about this journey closed with a quotation by Helmer Hanssen, who had been responsible for the welfare of the sled dogs in Amundsen ’ s South Pole team:

The ice sheet which drains into the Amundsen Sea averages about in thickness ; is roughly the size of the state of Texas and the area is known as the Amundsen Sea Embayment ( ASE ); it forms one of the three major ice drainage basins of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

The ice sheet which drains into the Amundsen Sea averages about in thickness ; is roughly the size of the state of Texas and the area is known as the Amundsen Sea Embayment ( ASE ); it forms one of the three major ice drainage basins of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the others being the Ross Sea Embayment and the Weddell Sea Embayment.

Measurements made by the British Antarctic Survey in 2005 showed that the ice discharge rate into the Amundsen Sea embayment was about 250 km < sup > 3 </ sup > per year.

He was a frequent contributor to Encounter, where his articles were widely noticed-" Sitting on a Fortune " ( about prostitution ) and a review showing up many errors of fact in Roland Huntford's book on Scott and Amundsen, which denigrated the former ( ignoring the scientific character of Scott's expedition ), and presented the event as merely a " race " that the latter " won ".

Amundsen Glacier () is a major Antarctic glacier, about 6 to 10 km ( 4 to 6 mi ) wide and 128 km ( 80 mi ) long, originating on the polar plateau where it drains the area to the south and west of Nilsen Plateau, and descending through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf just west of the MacDonald Nunataks.

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

Burke Island is an ice-covered island about long and wide, lying southwest of Cape Waite, King Peninsula, in the Amundsen Sea.

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.

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 ".

Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Amundsen had hidden a lifelong desire inspired by Fridtjof Nansen's crossing of Greenland in 1888 and the doomed Franklin expedition.

In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson ), with six others in a 45-ton fishing vessel, Gjøa.

"</ 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.

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.

In 1918, Amundsen began an expedition with a new ship Maud, which was to last until 1925.

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

Captain Roald Amundsen at the wheel during the North Pole expedition, 1920

If the Norge expedition was actually the first to the North Pole, Amundsen and Oscar Wisting would therefore be the first persons to reach each geographical pole, by ground or by air, as the case may be.

* Gjennem luften til 88 ° Nord ( by Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and other members of the expedition, 1925 ).

Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Having first worked in Bergen and Leipzig he was the scientific director of the North Polar expedition of Roald Amundsen aboard the Maud from 1918 to 1925.

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

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

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.

Other famous ships included the RMS Carpathia which rescued the survivors from the Titanic in 1912, and the icebreaker Krasin ( launched as Sviatogor ) which rescued the Umberto Nobile expedition on Spitsbergen in 1928, when Roald Amundsen perished.

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

Crary was the seventh expedition leader to arrive at the South Pole by surface transportation ( the six others before him were — in sequence — Amundsen, Scott, Hillary, Fuchs, a Russian expedition in 1959 / 60 from Vostok base, and Havola ).

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 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 named their South Pole camp Polheim, " Home on the Pole.

* The Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station is named jointly with his rival

** 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 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.

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

* 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