On Roald Amundsen’s scientific achievements
Source: doi:10.3402/polar.v35.31319 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 (...
Published in: | Polar Research |
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Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Open
2017
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/10441 https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v35.31319 |
Summary: | Source: doi:10.3402/polar.v35.31319 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. |
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