biography
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Amundsen, Roald (Engelbregt Gravning)
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pronunciation:
[amundsen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1928)
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| biography:
| Explorer, born in Borge, SE Norway. From 1903 to 1906 he sailed the Northwest Passage from E–W, and located the Magnetic North Pole. In 1910 he set sail in the Fram in an attempt to reach the North Pole, but hearing that Peary had apparently beaten him to it, he switched to the Antarctic and reached the South Pole in December 1911, one month ahead of Captain Scott. In 1926 he flew the airship Norge across the North Pole with Ellsworth and Nobile. In 1928 he disappeared when searching by plane for Nobile and his airship Italia, which had gone missing on another flight to the Pole. |
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