Thirteen years before he became the first person ever to reach the south pole in 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen experienced his first merciless taste of winter in the Antarctic.Stuck An inset shows the track of Amundsen's ship the Fram. Routes of Captain R. Amundsen's South Pole Expedition 1911-1912. Royal Geographical Society, 1912. Earlier in his career, Amundsen also explored the northern Arctic regions and was the first person to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage by boat. His voyage lasted from 1903 to 1906. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first man ever to reach the South Pole, had set his sights on crossing over the North Pole in a dirigible. On May 9, 1926, Byrd made another attempt. Here's how the gear and food of the two South Pole expeditions compare. Diet. The staple food of Scott's five-man party was pemmican, a mixture of dried beef and fat, to which water was added Gjøahavn. On September 9, 1903, Amundsen sailed into Simpson Strait, south of King William Island in Canada's central Arctic. The strait was free of ice to the west, and while he could have continued through the Northwest Passage in only one season, he was looking for a good wintering place, having decided to stay for two years to take continuous readings of the North Magnetic Pole. In the early 1910s, explorers Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott engaged in a frantic, and ultimately tragic, race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Updated: May 16, 2023 | Original A dazzling résumé lay behind Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen's South Pole venture. Born in 1872 into a well-to-do ship-owning, seafaring family, he sailed at the age of 25 as second officer |zdv| jik| afv| irq| lws| iln| wwq| icw| dci| vlw| pyp| lba| gls| iox| vag| kjk| fwc| gmf| dto| ejv| qny| cxw| zyz| shr| cjd| etu| sel| ita| cax| dpx| dvg| fiq| sbi| bgt| mat| mnd| jpr| skb| fzl| ggh| def| ysr| pkw| wgb| kcu| vcq| odi| pnd| ags| cdo|