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26 de feb. de 2021 · This introduction is a brief summary of the state of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1912, as of January 26, 1912, following the return of Roald Amundsen, his sled dogs, and his party from the South Pole—where they had been the first to reach that coveted geographical destination—and just prior to the preparation for their departure f...
- Mary R. Tahan
- mrtahan@maryrtahan.com
- 2021
- Into The Northeast Passage
- The First Winter
- Tessem and Knudsen
- The Second Winter
- Through The Northeast Passage to Nome
- By The Bering Strait 1920-21
- A Winter in Seattle
- A Dream of Flying
Roald Amundsen’s postponed North Pole expedition finally started in July 1918. The plan was to enter the pack ice north of the Bering Strait and drift with the ice as near to the North Pole as possible, if necessary walking the last part over the ice, and to carry out scientific collections and observations during the entire expedition. As the war ...
Neither Amundsen nor Sverdrup felt that the wintering would be wasted. The area around them was relatively unexplored and Sverdrup started by establishing a magnetic observatory and setting up meteorological instruments. Amundsen suffered several accidents during this winter. He fell through the sea ice and was saved by Hanssen. He then had a bad f...
The summer arrived late in 1919 and at the beginning of August Maud was still stuck in the ice in the bay. Peter Tessem, the expedition carpenter, now wished to leave the expedition, apparently owing to headaches and sleeplessness. Amundsen wrote in his account that he had the idea of sending all the scientific results they had gathered so far back...
After only 11 days the Maud was again stopped by the ice and a new winter harbour was found by Ajon Island. This time they had a Chukchi tent site nearby and the two groups met with each other. Sverdrup spent the seven winter months together with the Chukchi on their seasonal travel, which resulted in a detailed ethnographical description of these ...
Amundsen had now decided that the expedition would go straight to Nome when they got out of the ice, and that any of the crew could leave the ship there if they wanted to. The atmosphere on board was not too good after these two years without the planned expedition really having started. On 8 July they were released from the ice by Ajon Island and ...
Only Wisting, Sverdrup and Olonkin wished to follow Amundsen on the Maud again. After a short stop at Nome, where they hired a native woman, Mary, as cook, they sailed north on a new attempt to start the drift over the Arctic Ocean. They got no further north than 76° before the ship was forced towards the Siberian coast and a new wintering by Cape ...
They struggled out of the ice at the end of June, and on to East Cape where they were towed 400 km further south by an American inspection ship. From the Aleutian Islands they sailed on alone and arrived at Seattle 30 August. The Maud was repaired and stayed here for her fourth winter in Wisting’s and Olonkin’s care. During the winter Sverdrup went...
In May 1922 Amundsen and Sverdrup arrived back at the Maud and a new attempt was to be made to drift over the Arctic Ocean. Amundsen had meanwhile changed his plans. He would now try to fly over the ocean from Alaska to Svalbard. He had been lent a small Curtiss plane from the American aircraft company and it was to be taken on the Maud and used fo...
24 de dic. de 2011 · A hundred years ago – 14 December 1911 – Norwegian polar explorer and adventurer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) became the first person to reach the South Pole. This happened in a race against time as a British expedition led by Robert Scott was on the same mission and was constantly breathing down Amundsen’s neck. But Amundsen came first.
- Niels Ebdrup
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, the first to reach the South Pole, a navigator of the Northeast Passage, the first to fly to latitude 88⁰ N, and the first to fly across the Arctic Ocean. Early life. Amundsen was born on the 16th of July, 1872, on a small farm near Sarpsborg in south-eastern ...
5 de ene. de 2019 · This chapter summarizes the final destinations and ultimate fates of the sled dogs who returned from Antarctica as part of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition and analyzes the reasoning exhibited by Amundsen in making the decisions that led to their final outcomes.
- Mary R. Tahan
- 2019
They are far from the only prominent polar explorers from Norway, however. Several modern-day explorers keep the Norwegian adventurers’ legacy alive. Roald Amundsen: first to reach the South Pole. Roald Amundsen made history and became a national hero in Norway when he beat Captain Robert F. Scott to the South Pole.
Roald Amundsen and his 4-man team reached the South Pole, with the help of polar dogs, on 14 December 1911. The expedition, and particularly the dog-sled journey to the Pole, is described as daring and with an exceptionally good logistic planning and execution.
