On Roald Amundsen's scientific achievements

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Author: Arnoldus Schytte Blix
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2016
• Subjects: Fridtjof Nansen; polar exploration; South Pole; North-west Passage; North-east Passage; H.U. Sverdrup; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Fridtjof; Chukchi; North East Passage; North West Passage; Polar Research; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v35.31319; https://doaj.org/article/79645eb131eb423aafcc8d98cbdca696

This paper describes the significant direct and indirect contributions to science made by the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen in the period 1897–1924. It documents that his expeditions through the North-west Passage (1903–06) with Gjøa, to the South Pole (1910–12) with Fram and through the North-east Passage (1918–1920) and the Chukchi and East Siberian seas (1921–25) with Maud yielded vast amounts of published scientific material on meteorology, terrestrial magnetism, geology, palaeontology, oceanography, ethnography, zoology and botany, which, though celebrated at the time, have since received scant recognition in more recent assessments of Amundsen's achievements.