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 ...

The writer of this terse diary entry was Roald Amundsen ... north in the ship Gjøa with a remarkably small crew of only six men (Franklin had taken 129) to seek the Northwest Passage and ...

THERE WERE NEARLY 200 PEOPLE on our ship’s deck ... It felt like a final gift from the fabled Northwest Passage; a gentle reminder that although many of its secrets had been mapped by Franklin, ...

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 ...

However, forward-thinking cruise line Hurtigruten is looking to change the game with the launch of what they’re calling “the world’s greenest cruise ship.” In 2018, the MS Roald Amundsen ...