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	Antarctic Explorers: Roald Amundsen
		Amundsen admitted that he was heavily in debt and knew that his best chance of raising money was to bring off a spectacular triumph.
		Amundsen's excuse to the others was that Hanssen was suffering too severely from frostbite to linger behind...the men were not totally convinced.
		Amundsen's decision was not a revengeful one as he felt that if the Pole party were not successful, at least there might still be a "first" gained for Norway.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000101.htm (3604 words)

	Roald Amundsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amundsen was born to a family of Norwegian shipowners and captains in Borge near Sarpsborg, Norway.
		Amundsen set his base there and named it Framheim, literally, "Home of the Fram." It was 60 statute miles (96 km) closer to the Pole than McMurdo Sound where the rival British expedition led by Scott stayed.
		Amundsen began his drive for the pole on 20 October 1911, and along with Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, arrived at the Pole on 14 December 1911, 35 days before Scott.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roald_Amundsen (1540 words)

	The Life of Roald Amundsen - ExploreNorth
		Amundsen approached Fridtjof Nansen and asked to borrow the "Fram" in which Nansen and his crew had spent three years - 1893 - 96 - drifting with the ice from Siberia towards the North Pole.
		Amundsen's victory in the race for the South Pole had by no means satisfied his desire to reach new goals.
		Amundsen procured pilots and mechanics for the two aircraft and on May 21 1925 the two planes took off from Spitsbergen headed for Alaska.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/history/bl-amundsen.htm (2722 words)

	ROALD AMUNDSEN
		Amundsen was born in 1872 at Borge, near the town of Sarpsborg, in southeast Norway.
		Roald Amundsen´s home "Uranienborg" in the municipality of Oppegård is picturesquely situated among ancient trees with a view of the Bunnefjord in Svartskog.
		The vessel Amundsen selected for the voyage was the "Gjøa" a 47 ton, 70 foot sloop which - loaded to the gunwales - set out from Christiania in June 1903.
	gonorway.no /go/amundsen.html (2734 words)

	Roald Amundsen,Brief History
		Amundsen was now in his element, away from society and business dealings, leading a small group of professionals into the unknown.
		Amundsen, a lover of all animals, preferred not to hunt and made himself useful by transporting the carcasses to the ship.
		Amundsen donated his collection of Netsilik artifacts to the ethnographic museum in Oslo, where today they can be viewed by the public.
	www.framheim.com /Amundsen/NWP/NWPassage.html (2328 words)

	The American Experience \| Alone on the Ice \| People & Events \| Roald Amundsen
		Roald Engebreth Gravning Amundsen of Norway took pride in being referred to as "the last of the Vikings." A powerfully built man of over six feet in height, Amundsen was born into a family of merchant sea captains and prosperous ship owners in 1872.
		Amundsen studied all he could of Shackleton's attempt and began the long process of preparing for his own.
		Amundsen, who was thought to be "taciturn under the best of circumstances," took special measures to be sure members of his crew possessed personalities suitable to long polar voyages.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/ice/peopleevents/pandeAMEX87.html (847 words)

	Amundsen Homepage
		Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole was an incredible masterpiece of organization.
		Amundsen had viewed the way his British rival, Robert Scott, who was also making a dash for the pole, had marked his depots as verging on criminal negligence.
		Amundsen's use of skis and carefully selected sled dogs, were crucial factors in his success at reaching the South Pole first.
	www.slais.ubc.ca /COURSES/arst593b/03-04-wt2/Assignment1/Assign1_Preston_Ballaux/Amundsen-homepage.html (673 words)

	MSN Encarta - Roald Amundsen
		Amundsen, Roald (1872-1928), Norwegian polar explorer, born in Borge, and educated at the University of Christiania (now the University of Oslo).
		Amundsen's plans for an expedition into the north polar regions were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I; in 1918, however, he sailed from Norway in an attempt to drift eastward across the North Pole with the ice currents of the Arctic Ocean.
		Nobile was eventually rescued, but Amundsen was last heard from June 28, 1928, a few hours after he and five others had left Tromsø, Norway, by airplane.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565193/Roald_Amundsen.html (501 words)

	Amundsen, Roald
		Amundsen, Roald, arctic explorer (b at Sarpsborg, Norway 16 July 1872; d between Norway and Spitsbergen 18 June 1928).
		Amundsen went to sea as a young man. Determined to navigate the NORTHWEST PASSAGE, he purchased the Gjoa, readied it for arctic waters and embarked in 1903.
		Amundsen disappeared in 1928 on his way to search for Nobile, missing on another arctic flight.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000190 (130 words)

	Roald Amundsen
		Amundsen made the promise and ordered to built a new ship called MAUD for the latter part of the expedition; follow the North-East passage to Bering Strait and then, after entering the pack ice, to drift with the polar current to Spitsbergen and Greenland.
		Amundsen was bankrupt and offended deep in his soul.
		Amundsen was beloved again and the newspapers were screaming out the new expedition plans.
	www.fram.nl /faq/name/amundsen.htm (1109 words)

	Roald Amundsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Amundsen changed his plans and decided to lead an expedition to the South Pole instead.
		Amundsen and his crew arrived at the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf in January 1911.
		Amundsen was the first person to sail both the Northwest and Northeast passages.
	www.worldbook.com /features/explorers/html/saga_amundsen.html (586 words)

	Amundsen FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In an heroic race between Scott and Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer and his four teammates -- Hansse, Hassel, Bjaaland and Wisting -- won the race, arriving at the most southern point of the world on the 14th of December 1911, nearly a month before Scott and his demoralized team.
		Amundsen and his men were sickened by such butchery but they knew it was the key to their survival.
		Amundsen vanished while helping an international rescue operation that was searching for Italian polar explorer, Umberto Nobile, whose dirigible, the Italia had crashed on an ice floe near Svalbard.
	www.slais.ubc.ca /COURSES/arst593b/03-04-wt2/Assignment1/Assign1_Preston_Ballaux/FAQS.html (526 words)

	USNews.com: The last Viking's gift was a willingness to learn (2/23/04)
		Amundsen was the first person to navigate the Northwest Passage between the Canadian mainland and its Arctic islands, the first to reach the South Pole, and the first to touch the two poles in a lifetime.
		Scott and his men died on their return trip, and although Amundsen wasn't blamed for their deaths, his accomplishment was eclipsed by tales of their martyrdom.
		Amundsen also seemed a poor fit for newer modes of exploration: He joined a team that became the first to fly across the Arctic Circle in 1926, but he couldn't pilot the craft and was shunned by the team for taking too much credit.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/culture/articles/040223/23amundsen.htm (459 words)

	Chicago Public Schools: OSHP High School Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Amundsen is located in the culturally and economically diverse Ravenswood neighborhood on the city’s North Side.
		Amundsen students are motivated to develop leadership skills that will last a lifetime through the school’s opportunities for scholarship, athletics and social responsibility.
		Amundsen offers the International Baccalaureate Program (IB), which provides academically advanced students the opportunity to earn an internationally recognized secondary diploma in addition to their CPS diploma.
	www.cps.k12.il.us /Schools/hsdirectory/schools/amundsen.shtml (562 words)

	My Life as an Explorer by Roald Amundsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is Roald Amundsens autobiography in which he shares his passion for exploration which began at age 22 with a near fatal winter trek across his native Norway.
		Amundsens real interest lay to the North and soon he had conquered the fabled Northwest passage and was preparing for an assault on the North Pole when news arrived that Admiral Peary had beaten him to his goal.
		Amundsen considered the expedition as a purely Norwegian-American endeavour with the Italians merely hired hands but the new dictatorship of Mussolini seized the propaganda initiative declaring to the world that it would be the Italian airforce that would conquer the Arctic skies.
	www.ast.leeds.ac.uk /haverah/spaseman/bookmlaae.shtml (705 words)

	Roald Amundsen Linkpage
		The article reports a news story of 1996 concerning new information casting further doubt on the claim of Admiral Byrd that he flew was the first to fly over the North Pole (on May 9, 1926).
		If Byrd did perpetrate a hoax, this does not mean that Amundsen was the first to reach the pole, but that he was the first to fly over it.
		Amundsen reached the South Pole on Dec. 14, 1911; he died in 1928.
	www.mnc.net /norway/roald.html (245 words)

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