Roald Amundsen and his ambiguous relationship to science : A look at outcomes of his six expeditions

• Main Author: Elzinga, Aant
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Göteborgs universitet 2010
• Subjects: R. Amundsen; F. Nansen; H. U. Sverdrup; polar science; explorers; Northwest Passage; polar history; race to the pole; Humanities; Humaniora; Fridtjof; Norway; South Pole; Fridtjof Nansen; International Polar Year; Journal of Northern Studies; Northwest passage; South pole
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-66467

Roald Amundsen’s activelife as an explorer coincided with a period of important changes in the earthsciences. The purpose of the present paper is to situate some of his endeavoursin relation to those trends. On the one hand there was a continuation ofempirical traditions in field sciences driven by...