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	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)

	GoNorway - Roald Amundsen
		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.
		Without hesitation Amundsen volunteered to take part in a rescue attempt, and in June he was one of six men who took off from the town of Tromsø in a French aircraft, the Latham.
	www.gonorway.no /norway/sidevisning.php?id=43 (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)

	Roald Amundsen - Arctic Explorers - All Things Arctic
		One of the most famous polar explorers, Roald Amundsen of Norway was the first person to successfully navigate the fabled Northwest passage (1905), the first person to reach the South Pole (1911), and the first person to fly over the North Pole (1926).
		Amundsen, with a shorter overland route and a disciplined plan involving the use of dogs to pull the sleds and provide food for the return journey, arrived at the pole with four men on Dec. 14, 1911, one month ahead of the British.
		Amundsen died in a plane crash attempting to rescue his friend, the Italian explorer Umberto Nobile who was lost in an airship.
	www.allthingsarctic.com /exploration/amundsen.aspx (514 words)

	Roald Amundsen
		The "Belgica" was under Amundsen's command when it finally broke out of the ice in March 1899, making the expedition the first--albeit highly involuntary--ever to stay the winter in the Antarctic.
		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 met little interest in his attempts to gather funds for his latest endeavour--to be the first man to fly over the North Pole.
	www.marine.fm /en/amundsenen.htm (2087 words)

	Roald Amundsen
		Roald Amundsen was a great man, but in real life also a little child.
		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.
		Roald Amundsen was never seen again and was probably crashed in the sea off the Norwegian coast.
	www.fram.nl /faq/name/amundsen.htm (1109 words)

	Roald Amundsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872–June 18, 1928?) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.
		Amundsen was born to a family of Norwegian shipowners and captains in Borge near Fredrikstad.
		Amundsen was a member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–1899) as second mate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roald_Amundsen (2477 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: Roald Amundsen
		Roald Amundsen, born in 1872 near Oslo, Norway, left his mark on the Heroic Era as one of the most successful polar explorers ever born.
		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 - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Amundsen, Roald (1872-1928), Norwegian polar explorer, born in Borge, and educated at the University of Christiania (now the University of Oslo)....
		In 1906 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen successfully sailed through the Northwest Passage, a sea route that runs along the northern coast of...
		The race to the South Pole reached its height during the early years of the 20th century, when several explorers vied to be first to the pole.
	encarta.msn.com /Roald_Amundsen.html (130 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Amundsen, Roald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Amundsen, Roald AMUNDSEN, ROALD [Amundsen, Roald] (Roald Engelbregt Grauning Amundsen), 1872-1928, Norwegian polar explorer; the first person to reach the South Pole.
		Sailing with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen who would later be the first to reach the South Pole, Gerlache led a scientific expedition to Antarctica in 1897-99.
		The South Pole was reached by Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, in 1911.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/00464.html (640 words)

	Roald Amundsen (Norway - the official site in the United States)
		Amundsen was born in 1872, eleven years after Nansen, near the town of Sarpsborg in southeast Norway.
		Amundsen purchased a sturdy, 45 ton vessel, the "Gjøa", equipped with sails and a 13 horsepower engine, and in the summer of 1903 the "Gjøa" nosed out of the Oslo Fjord, and with its crew of six prepared to make its way through the ice-ridden waters of the Northwest Passage.
		Amundsen then resolved to postpone his North Pole expedition and in the meanwhile to make a bid to reach the South Pole ahead of Robert Falcon Scott, who was already on his way to the Antarctic as the head of a large expedition.
	www.norway.org /history/expolorers/amundsen (827 words)

	ROALD AMUNDSEN \| GREAT EXPLORERS AND ADVENTURERS OF THE WORLD
		Roald Amundsen (July 16, 1872-June 22, 1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer who was the first person to fly over the North Pole in a dirigible (May 11-13, 1926) and was the first person to reach the South Pole.
		Amundsen was also the first person to sail around the world through the Northeast and Northwest passages, from the Atlantic to the Pacific (in 1905).
		Amundsen died in a plane crash in the summer of 1928, while attempting to rescue his friend Nobile, who had been lost in a dirigible crash in the Arctic (Nobile was found by another search crew).
	www.solarnavigator.net /history/roald_amundsen.htm (877 words)

	Frammuseet
		Amundsens breakthrough as a polar explorer came when he, in charge of his own expedition using the ship ”Gjøa”, became the first to go through the Northwest passage.
		Roald Amundsen was known for his very careful planning and the ability to reach his goals.
		Amundsens expedition that conquered the south pole is the ultimate success in Norwegian polar history.
	www.fram.museum.no /en?page=91 (356 words)

	Roald Amundsen Biography (Explorer) — Infoplease.com
		Roald Amundsen made a name for himself with his 1903-06 expedition on the Gjoa; he was the first to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage and he managed to locate the site of the magnetic North Pole.
		In the 1920s Amundsen explored the Arctic by air, and in 1926 was part of the first team to successfully fly from Europe to America over the North Pole.
		Amundsen Sea - Amundsen Sea, arm of the S Pacific Ocean, W Antarctica, bordered by Thurston Island and Cape Dart.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/roaldamundsen.html (337 words)

	KIDCYBER TOPICS
		He was not the first person to reach the North Pole, but was the first to see both Poles, the first to fly over the North Pole in an airship, and the first person to sail around the world through the Northeast and Northwest passages, from the Atlantic to the Pacific (in 1905).
		Amundsen's expedition travelled by dog sled and reached the South Pole on 14 December 1911.
		Amundsen was 55 years old when he died in a plane crash in 1928, while attempting to rescue his friend Nobile, who had been lost in a dirigible (airship) crash in the Arctic.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/AntexplRoald.htm (208 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, 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.
		It was not until Amundsen's ship, "Fram", was well off the coast of Morocco that he announced to his crew that they were headed for the South, not the North, Pole.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/ice/peopleevents/pandeAMEX87.html (847 words)

	Roald Amundsen Biography \| scit_061_package.xml (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Amundsen was born in Borge near Oslo, Norway, in 1872.
		After this success, Amundsen hoped to be the first to the North Pole, and even had an expedition planned when he learned that Robert E. Peary (1856-1920) team's had beat him to it.
		Amundsen's last Arctic trip was prompted by the disappearance of Umberto Nobile (1885-1978), the man who had designed and piloted the dirigible that took Amundsen to the North Pole.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/roald-amundsen-scit-061 (693 words)

	Amazon.com: The South Pole: Books: Roald E. Amundsen,Roland Huntford,Captain Roald Amundsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Roald Amundsen's "The South Pole" is a detailed, even exhaustive account of his successful 1910-1912 expedition to the South Pole.
		Amundsen was apparently a modest man, and it falls to Roland Huntford in an introduction to draw the obvious comparison with the catastrophic failure of the Scott expedition.
		When Amundsen turned from the North Pole to the South after the question of "the great nail" had been settled by Cook and Peary, his decision was treated in many sectors (most notably an unbalanced and jingoistic British Press) as underhanded and double dealing.
	www.amazon.com /South-Pole-Roald-E-Amundsen/dp/0815411278 (1685 words)

	Roald Amundsen, Conqueror of the Ice Unit Study, Homeschool Curriculum and Unit Studies Online - Homeschool Learning ...
		Roald Amundsen was one of the greatest Artic and Antarctic explorers in history.
		Roald Amundsen was born in 1872 near Oslo, Norway.
		Amundsen tried a new more southerly route and made it through, but he had to winter over locked in the ice three winters in a row.
	www.homeschoollearning.com /units/unit_09-20-01.shtml (2431 words)

	Roald Amundsen Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Norwegian Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) was the first explorer to reach the South Pole.
		In 1918 Amundsen left Norway in his ship Maud; his objective was to drift across the north polar sea from Asia to North America, but the polar ice pack made this an impossibility.
		The next spring Amundsen, the American aviator Lincoln Ellsworth, and the Italian colonel Umberto Nobile used the dirigible Norge on the trans-Arctic flight from Spitsbergen to Teller in Alaska.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/roald-amundsen (453 words)

	Introduction - Amundsen-20th Century - Passageways
		Roald Amundsen - Pathfinders & Passageways: The Exploration of Canada
		Roald Amundsen was one of the most important men in the history of polar exploration.
		Roald Amundsen's "The North West Passage", Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjoa", 1903-1907, p.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /explorers/kids/h3-1910-e.html (116 words)

	roald amundsen \| biography (1872-1928)
		Out of the three great Antarctic explorers of the early 1900s, Amundsen is the one who actually got to the South Pole first yet today is the least fondly remembered.
		Roald Amundsen was born to a family of Norwegian shipowners and captains in Borge near Sarpsborg.
		Amundsen planned to freeze the Maud into the polar ice cap and drift towards the North Pole (as Nansen had done with the Fram), but in this he was not successful.
	www.leninimports.com /roald_amundsen.html (1718 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)

	Roald Amundsen
		Amundsen also interacted with the Eskimos and voraciously studied their methods of survival.
		Amundsen's life and dreams always dwelled in the north, and by 1910, Amundsen's creditors as well as most of his men expected another journey north to the Arctic.
		Already weeks into the ocean voyage, they were given only a few minutes to choose to leave the Fram, to abandon what had been a commitment to several years in the Arctic.
	home.earthlink.net /~kcrawfish/amundsen.html (788 words)

	NOVA \| Arctic Passage \| Norway's Reluctant Hero \| PBS
		If Amundsen is to be believed, the incident that inspired him to become a polar explorer and indeed to be the first man to navigate the Northwest Passage on one keel was when Nansen returned to Oslo in 1889 after his first crossing of Greenland, which he had accomplished in 1888.
		But the kind of hero that Nansen was, the kind of hero that Amundsen aspired to be, and the kind of heroism that is embedded in the Scandinavian psyche, is the diametric opposite.
		Huntford: After his original confusion, Amundsen proceeded to accomplish a plan that he'd conceived when he first thought of going on the Northwest Passage, and that was he wanted to learn all he could about survival and travel in the polar region from the Inuit.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/arctic/huntford.html (3860 words)

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