On Roald Amundsen’s scientific achievements

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Author: Blix, Arnoldus S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Open 2017
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Meteorologi: 453; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Stratigrafi og paleontologi: 461; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Oseanografi: 452; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Meteorology: 453; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Stratigraphy and paleontology: 461; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Oceanography: 452; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Marin geologi: 466; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Marine geology: 466; South Pole; Chukchi; North East Passage; North West Passage; Polar Research; South pole
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/10441; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v35.31319

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.