Roald Amundsen - Famous Explorer Of The 19th And Early 20th Centuries Editorial Image

Hutchinson`s History of the Nations 1915 -Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions and a key figure of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. He led the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage by sea, from 1903 to 1906, and the first expedition to the South Pole in 1911. He was the first explorer to transit the Northwest Passage 1903–05, the first to reach the South Pole 1911, and the first to fly over the North Pole in an airship 1926. 1872 - 1928.