Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of Polar Regions. He led the Antarctic voyage of 1910-1912 which he was the first to reach the South Pole, on the 14th of December 1911. In 1926 he was the first expedition leader for the air mission to the North Pole. For this he was recognized as the first person to have reached both poles. He is also known as having the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage during 1903–1906 in the Arctic. In June 1928, while taking part in a rescue mission for the Airship Italia, the plane he was in disappeared. Amundsen was one of the key expedition leaders, including Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Amundsen still had the goal of reaching the North Pole. In 1926 he joined an expedition with Umberto Nobile aboard the airship Norge. They flew over the North Pole in May.
Facts about Roald Amundsen
· Amundsen, Nobile, and Lincoln Ellsworth all dropped their country's flags onto the North Pole as they flew over.
· At one point he was attacked and nearly killed by a polar bear.
· The airship he used to fly to the North Pole in was almost 350 feet long and filled with hydrogen gas.
· He named the mountain range he crossed on his way to the South Pole the Queen Maud Mountains, after the queen of Norway.
· When he reached the South Pole, he stayed there for three days to rest and get ready for the trip back.
· Roald Dahl, who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, was named after Amundsen.
Amundsen still had the goal of reaching the North Pole. In 1926 he joined an expedition with Umberto Nobile aboard the airship Norge. They flew over the North Pole in May.
Facts about Roald Amundsen
· Amundsen, Nobile, and Lincoln Ellsworth all dropped their country's flags onto the North Pole as they flew over.
· At one point he was attacked and nearly killed by a polar bear.
· The airship he used to fly to the North Pole in was almost 350 feet long and filled with hydrogen gas.
· He named the mountain range he crossed on his way to the South Pole the Queen Maud Mountains, after the queen of Norway.
· When he reached the South Pole, he stayed there for three days to rest and get ready for the trip back.
· Roald Dahl, who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, was named after Amundsen.
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott was born June 6th, 1868, Plymouth, United Kingdom and died March 29th, 1912, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica aged 43. He died on an expedition. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian Expedition. On their return journey, Scott's party discovered plant fossils, proving Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. At a distance of 150 miles from their base camp and 11 miles from the next depot, Scott and his companions died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.