Roald Amundsen

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Sverdrup, Harald U.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1959
• Subjects: Caribou; Snow; Tundra ecology; Winter ecology; Antarctic; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Nobile; Northwest Passage; The Antarctic; Antarc*; North Magnetic Pole; Northeast Passage; Northwest passage; Tundra
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66777

Contains a biography of the Norwegian explorer, 1872-1928, who was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage and to fly across the Arctic Ocean. His early life, travels in the Antarctic, and financial difficulties are described; his arctic explorations are recounted: through the Northwest Passage on the Gjoa 1903-1906, and the Northeast Passage on the Maud 1918-25, the scientific data accumulated; the north magnetic pole relocated by the Gjoa party. The Amundsen-Ellsworth flight of 1925 and that of Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile in 1926 pioneered the use of aircraft in arctic exploration.