Oppegård kirke, Oppegård, Norway: fixing the location where Roald Amundsen revealed his ‘minor diversion’

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Capelotti, P.J., Barr, Susan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2013
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Norway; South Pole; North Pole; Oppegård; Polar Record; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247413000181; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247413000181

ABSTRACT After learning in the first week of September 1909 that the North Pole had been claimed, the career and prospects of the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen hung in the balance. Scheduled to lead an exploration of the north polar basin, Amundsen suddenly found himself without adequate funding...