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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 in a fur-trimmed coat, looking directly at the camera in a black-and-white portrait from 1923.
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Roald Amundsen, 1923.
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Roald Amundsen and his crew aboard the Gjøa.
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Roald Amundsen at the South Pole, December 1911.
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The airship Norge floating above Spitsbergen in 1926 before Roald Amundsen's expedition...
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