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Roald Amundsen in a fur-trimmed coat, looking directly at the camera in a black-and-white portrait from 1923. Roald Amundsen Map of the Arctic region showing the routes of major Arctic explorations from the mid-19th to the 20th century. Each expedition, including those by Franklin, McClure, Nordenskiold, Nansen, Amundsen, Peary, Byrd and Bennett, Amundsen-Nobile-Ellsworth, and Plaisted, is marked with a distinct colored line tracing their paths across the Arctic Ocean, surrounding seas, and landmasses such as Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Russia. A legend in the upper left corner matches each route to its explorer an Roald Amundsen and another explorer stand at the South Pole in heavy cold-weather gear beside a Norwegian flag planted in the snow, with one man working at a box. Roald Amundsen
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Roald Amundsen

Norwegian explorer
Also known as: Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen
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Quick Facts Roald Amundsen (born July 16, 1872, Borge, near Oslo, Norway—died June 18, 1928?, Arctic Ocean) was a Norwegian explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole, the first to make a ship voyage through the Northwest Passage, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air. He was one of the greatest figures in the field of polar exploration. Amundsen studied medicine for a while and then took to...

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