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    The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under...
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    The Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica. It lies between Cape Flying Fish (the northwestern tip of Thurston...
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    Amundsen Gulf is a gulf located mainly in the Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories, Canada with a small section in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut. It...
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    South Pole (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Situated on the continent of Antarctica, it is the site of the United States Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, which was established in 1956 and has been permanently...
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    The Mar de Grau (Spanish: Grau's Sea) is the official name for the body of water in the Pacific Ocean under the control of the South American country of...
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    first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. With a crew of six, Roald Amundsen traversed the passage in a three-year journey, finishing in 1906. The 70...
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    (Spanish: Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is...
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    Tyrrhenian Sea (redirect from Mar Tirreno)
    Tyrrhenian Sea (/tɪˈriːniən, -ˈreɪ-/, tih-REE-nee-ən ,-RAY-; Italian: Mar Tirreno [mar tirˈrɛːno] or [-ˈreː-]) is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western...
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    contemporaries, Sir Raymond Priestley, said: "Scott for scientific method, Amundsen for speed and efficiency[,] but[,] when disaster strikes and all hope is...
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    months on the island, Amundsen left in August 1905. The harbour where he lived has the island's only settlement, Gjoa Haven. Amundsen used skills learned...
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    (0.465 million sq mi) Somov Sea – 1.15 million km2 (0.44 million sq mi) Mar de Grau – 1.14 million km2 (0.44 million sq mi) Riiser-Larsen Sea – 1.138 million km2...
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    McMurdo Station (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Antarctic science facilities. Personnel and cargo going to or coming from Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station usually first pass through McMurdo, either by...
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    Fram (ship) (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912. It was designed and built by the Scottish-Norwegian...
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    Ionian Sea (redirect from Mar Ionio)
    romanized: Iónio Pélagos, IPA: [iˈoni.o ˈpelaɣos]; Italian: Mar Ionio or Mar Jonio, IPA: [mar ˈjɔːnjo]; Albanian: Deti Jon, IPA: [ˈdɛti ˈjɔn]) is an elongated...
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    The southern end of the gulf is also called "Mar Cantábrico" in Spanish (Cantabrian Sea), from the Estaca de Bares, as far as the mouth of Adour river,...
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    early 20th-century polar explorer Roald Amundsen after his ship Gjøa. In 1903, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had entered the area on his ship Gjøa...
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    in May 2000. Dr. Marks died while wintering over at the United States' Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station located at the geographic South Pole. Prior to...
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    capacity for load pulling and endurance in a harsh working environment. Roald Amundsen later used Greenland dogs to great success on his 1912 expedition to the...
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    The Bay of Campeche (Spanish: Bahía de Campeche), or Campeche Sound, is a bight in the southern area of the Gulf of Mexico, forming the north side of the...
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    New York: Alfred N. Knopf. ISBN 9780375415272. Amundsen, Roald and Godfred Hansen (1908). Roald Amundsen's "The North West Passage"; being the record of...
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    MAR divides the Atlantic longitudinally into two halves, in each of which a series of basins are delimited by secondary, transverse ridges. The MAR reaches...
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    The Balearic Sea (endotoponym: Mar Balear in Catalan and Spanish) also known as Iberian Sea, is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea between the Balearic...
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    A. Larsen "Heroic Age" Belgian Antarctic Expedition Belgica de Gerlache Lecointe Amundsen Cook Arctowski Racoviță Dobrowolski Southern Cross Southern...
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  • Pole April 6, 1909 Robert Peary The South Pole December 14, 1911 Roald Amundsen The South Pole January 17, 1912 Robert Falcon Scott Mount Everest summit...
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    List of Antarctic expeditions (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    south from Strait of Magellan to (56° S). He discovers the Drake Passage or Mar de Hoces. 1578 – Francis Drake claims to have discovered an ocean south of...
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    M'Clintock Channelmap2 and Victoria Straitmap3 lie eastward. On the west are Amundsen Gulfmap4 and Banks Island,map5 which is separated from Victoria by a long...
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    North Pole (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the area in 1926 with 16 men on board, including expedition leader Roald Amundsen. Three prior expeditions – led by Frederick Cook (1908, land), Robert Peary...
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    Argentine Sea (redirect from Mar Argentino)
    The Argentine Sea (Spanish: Mar Argentino) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the southern tip of South America. It ranges from the mouth...
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    Bay of Fundy (redirect from Baie de Fundy)
    The Bay of Fundy (French: Baie de Fundy) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U...
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  • and clinical implications. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2005 May;18(5):411-8. Amundsen BH, Crosby J, Steen PA, Torp H, Slørdahl SA, Støylen A. Regional myocardial...
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