Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (UK: /ˈɑːmʊndsən/, US: /-məns-/; Norwegian: [ˈrùːɑɫ ˈɑ̂mʉnsən] ; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer...
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MS Roald Amundsen is a hybrid powered expedition cruise ship operated by Norwegian company Hurtigruten AS. She was built by Kleven Yards of Norway and...
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States Antarctic Program (USAP). It is named in honor of Norwegian Roald Amundsen and Briton Robert F. Scott, who led separate teams that raced to become...
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Amundsen is a Norwegian film, released on 15 February 2019, that details the life of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. It was directed by Espen Sandberg...
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Northwest Passage (redirect from Amundsen expedition)
Rae explored a more southerly area in 1854 through which Norwegian Roald Amundsen made the first complete passage entirely by ship in 1903–1906. Until...
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Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. Roald Amundsen may also refer to: Roald Amundsen (footballer) (1913–1985), Norwegian...
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Roald Amundsen is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by the Spanish shipbuilders Navantia, in Ferrol, Roald Amundsen was...
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Roald Amundsen (often abbreviated Roald; named in honor of Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen), originally named Vilm, is a German steel-ship built...
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Roald Amundsen High School is a public four-year high school located between the Ravenswood, Andersonville and Lincoln Square neighborhoods in Chicago...
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Named after the Norwegian explorer, the Roald Amundsen is a former Pullman Company private car; the last of seven Explorer-series cars built between 1927...
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to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four other crew members made it to the geographical south pole...
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Between December 1911 and January 1912, both Roald Amundsen (leading his South Pole expedition) and Robert Falcon Scott (leading the Terra Nova Expedition)...
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King William Island (section Roald Amundsen)
south-west coast of King William Island. In 1903, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, looking for the Northwest Passage, sailed through the James Ross Strait...
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cartoonist Roald Amundsen (1872–1928), Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen (footballer) (1913–1985), Norwegian professional footballer Roald Åsmund Bye...
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led by Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth 1926: Aircraft flight by Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett 1926: The airship Norge (Roald Amundsen, Umberto...
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Norge (airship) (redirect from Amundsen-Ellsworth 1926 Transpolar Flight)
expedition was the brainchild of polar explorer and expedition leader Roald Amundsen, the airship's designer and pilot Umberto Nobile and the wealthy American...
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into the Canadian Coast Guard as Amundsen, named in honour of Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen, on 26 August 2003. Amundsen's sponsor was Lily Schreyer, the...
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The Roald Amundsen Memorial by Sigvald Asbjørnsen is installed in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, in the U.S. state of California. It honours Norwegian...
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Gjøa (section Purchase by Amundsen)
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...
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was scrapped. The ships are named after explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Roald Amundsen, Otto Sverdrup, Helge Ingstad and Thor Heyerdahl. In June 2023, the...
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primary object in many expeditions, as well as the sole rationale for Roald Amundsen's venture, which became the first to reach it in 1911. Other expeditions...
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Amundsen is a large lunar impact crater located near the south pole of the Moon, named after the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. It lies along the southern...
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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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Queen Maud Mountains (section Liv–Amundsen)
the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica. Captain Roald Amundsen and his South Pole party ascended Axel Heiberg Glacier near the central...
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geographic South Pole was first reached in 1911 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Antarctica is governed by about 30 countries, all of which are parties...
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Oscar Wisting (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
1936) was a Norwegian Naval officer and polar explorer. Together with Roald Amundsen he was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. Oscar...
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Roald Amundsen (18 September 1913 – 29 March 1985) was a Norwegian football defender who was a member of the Norway team at the 1938 FIFA World Cup. Amundsen...
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Nils Larsen named the body of water for the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen while exploring this area in February 1929. The sea is mostly ice-covered...
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Polish-Jewish family, and was named in honor of the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. His parents were Clara (Rosen), a teacher, and Hillel Safran, a civil...
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The Red Tent (film) (category Cultural depictions of Roald Amundsen)
survivors of the crash of the airship Italia. It features Sean Connery as Roald Amundsen and Peter Finch as Nobile. The script was adapted by Yuri Nagibin and...
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