In 1905, during Roald Amundsen's first transit of the ... Interestingly, in 1919-20, Godfred Hansen made another journey on behalf of Amundsen. Amundsen hoped to succeed where Nansen's original ...

When Roald Amundsen set up his base camp in ... Amundsen and his men used the months preceding the polar journey to lay down depots of supplies and to subject every article of food, clothing ...

The arduous journey took three years to complete as ... At approximately 3pm on December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen raised the flag of Norway at the South Pole, and naming the spot Polheim ...

Forgive me for starting with superlatives, but I have no choice. I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, wrote that the Queen Maud Range in ...

Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the geographic South Pole, part of a tragic race against Britain's Robert Scott who died of exhaustion and cold on the return journey along with his ...

Six years later Roald Amundsen would become the first man to ... with Nobile and his team crashing partway into their journey. Ironically, the effort to save Nobile would bring Amundsen out ...