[Amundsen and the ship ... of 1902-1903 I spent in feverish preparation for my great adventure of the Northwest Passage. I besieged every possible source of funds—the learned societies and ...

In 1905, during Roald Amundsen's first transit of the Northwest Passage, two of his men set out from Gjoa Haven to explore the unmapped east coast of Victoria Island. They reached halfway up ...

The writer of this terse diary entry was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who had won renown five years earlier for being the first to sail the Arctic's fabled Northwest Passage from the ...

For one man to have conquered the Northwest Passage, the North Magnetic Pole, and the South Pole is almost beyond imagination, yet Roald Amundsen accomplished all three in less than 10 years in ...

In search of postpandemic adventure, the author sailed the icy arctic waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

In preparation for the South Pole expedition Amundsen led a six-man team on the first successful expedition to sail through the Northwest Passage, the sea route through the Arctic Ocean along the ...

In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Once thought to be ice-free, the legendary North Pole ...

When Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen traversed the Northwest Passage in a tiny wooden boat from 1903 to 1906, he likely never envisioned that a little more than a century later, a 1,725-person ...

A look at the search for the fabled Northwest passage, the legendary path through ... Sir John Franklin and penniless Norwegian Roald Amundsen.

But the environment may not be. Starting in August, the Crystal Serenity will set sail from Seward, Alaska, transit Roald Amundsen's fabled Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean, and dock in ...

For centuries the search for a polar trade route had indeed consumed—and bettered—more-experienced explorers, until Roald Amundsen ... of traveling the Northwest Passage, Mr. Synnott, then ...