• America. In some cases Gomery has arisen by a process of aphaeresis, where the Mont- has gradually been lost from the surname Montgomery, a place name in Normandy...
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    and in the new US Territory of Alaska. In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen used sled dogs in a race to become the first person to reach the South...
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    headline coverage across the country and support from Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen, the plans were rejected by experienced pilots, the Navy, and Governor...
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    Karlsson Sleddogs". Retrieved 2024-06-09. "Amundsen Race 2013". rs.k2.no. Retrieved 2024-06-09. "Amundsen Race 2011". rs.k2.no. Retrieved 2024-06-09....
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  • Everyday Alpenglühen Hajo Gies [de] Götz George, Christiane Hörbiger Comedy Amundsen the Penguin [de] Stephen Manuel Lea Kurka, Harald Krassnitzer, Claude-Oliver...
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    Norwegian book Organisten (The Seven Steps to Mercy) by Erlend Loe and Petter Amundsen and the TV series Sweet Swan of Avon. Another hypothesis holds that the...
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    building are the same as those for walk-in refrigerators. Canada portal Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station Drifting ice station (North Pole station) Nanisivik...
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  • Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (m) / Emma Ribom (w) 10 km F winners: Harald Østberg Amundsen (m) / Jessie Diggins (w) December 15–17, 2023: WC #4 in Trondheim Sprint...
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  • Canadian National Vimy Memorial CAD 50 William Lyon Mackenzie King CCGS Amundsen CAD 100 Robert Borden Medical research, electrocardiogram track pattern...
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    and dome installed in 1904. Astronomical observations were also made from Mont Blanc in the late 1800s. A few other high altitude observatories (such as...
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    operated at too low a power setting for anti-ice to be effective Roald Amundsen Norway 1928 Explorer Latham 47 Barents Sea Disappearance An Chang-nam Korea...
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    he would choose to die. He had begun to train as a mountaineer in 1892 on Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa (Italian Alps): in 1897 he made the first ascent of...
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    the Norge airship during the expedition led by Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen; the tricolours then greeted Italo Balbo in his oceanic seaplane crossings...
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    preventing the icing process of ships. At Baie-Trinité, the Pointe-des-Monts Lighthouse, a National historic site of Canada, was built in 1829-1830 on...
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    Stephen R. (2012). The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen. Da Capo Press. pp. 165–166. Amundsen, Roald. "The South Pole". Archived from the original...
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    with several small islands close to the coastline, including Chausey and Mont-Saint-Michel. The Cotentin Peninsula on the French coast juts out into the...
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  • Observatory 1977 Lincoln, Nebraska, US IceCube Neutrino Observatory 2010 Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica Indian Astronomical Observatory 2001...
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  • scandinavian interior style similar to the expedition vessels MS Roald Amundsen and MS Fridtjof Nansen.[citation needed] The ships will be fitted with...
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    Island, Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Sea in the Antarctic are all named after him Mont Ross, the highest mountain, at a height of 6,070 feet (1,850 m), in the Kerguelen...
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    northwest of the Mackenzie Delta. In that same year, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen started to transit the famous Northwest Passage with his ship Gjøa on a...
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    he disappeared, flying a "Latham47" in the Arctic in 1928 with Roald Amundsen.1 Audruicq is twinned with: Hawkhurst in Kent, England, since 1998. Communes...
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    Augustine – of the Hospitallers of Saint Nicholas and Grand-St-Bernard of Mont Joux branch – who served as part of the missions in China and Tibet. He fought...
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  • World Cup #9 in Les Rousses Individual Start Free winners: Harald Østberg Amundsen (m) / Ebba Andersson (f) Mass Start Classic winners: Johannes Høsflot Klæbo...
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  • in  Belgium Winner: Rasmus Tiller (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) June 13: 2023 Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge in  France Winner: Lenny Martinez (Groupama–FDJ)...
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    Ice Shelf, the Ronne Ice Shelf, and outlet glaciers that drain into the Amundsen Sea. Dakshin Gangotri Glacier, a small outlet glacier of the Antarctic...
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  • (1951). Le bienheureux Jean-Pierre Néel et ses compagnons martyrs, des Monts du Lyonnais au Kouy-Tcheou (in French). Paris et Lyon: Emmanuel Vitte. ISBN 9782307071280...
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    Félix Biet, MEP (1838 in Langres, Haute-Marne – 1901 in Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or) was a French Catholic prelate who served as the Apostolic Vicar of Tibet...
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    As a mountaineer, he was particularly prolific in the Alps; he climbed Mont Blanc—the highest peak in the range—and claimed several first ascents of...
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  • (d. 1921) 1871 – John Maxwell, American golfer (d. 1906) 1872 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer (d. 1928) 1872 – Frank Cooper, Australian...
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    Pole (arriving by air), and commences construction of the first permanent Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. November 1 The States Reorganisation Act of India...
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