When Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen traversed the Northwest ... Even before the ship gets to the Northwest Passage, which Canada claims is in its waters but America treats as an international ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Synnott, an accomplished mountaineer and writer, decided it was a good time to refit his sailboat, the Polar Sun, and navigate the Northwest ... until Roald Amundsen successfully sailed it ...

In 1900, I bought the ship for this my first expedition. She was a small fishing smack from the northern part of Norway. She was 47 tons and of the same age as myself. [Amundsen and the ship ...

transit Roald Amundsen's fabled Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean, and dock in New York City. It will be the largest and most luxurious ship to cross the passage - staterooms on the ship ...

Lindblad Expeditions recently announced a 69-day "Epic Northwest Passage: Iceland to Japan" sailing ... northern and northwest coast of Alaska, the ship will dock in Nome, the Bering Sea community ...

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

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 ...