For one man to have conquered the Northwest Passage, the North Magnetic Pole, and the South Pole is almost beyond imagination, yet Roald Amundsen accomplished all three in less than 10 years in ...

The only man to make the east-west passage before him was Roald Amundsen. Larsen ... never traversed before by any white man. Northwest Passengers. The St. Roch picked up some passengers on ...

[Amundsen and the ship ... of 1902-1903 I spent in feverish preparation for my great adventure of the Northwest Passage. I besieged every possible source of funds—the learned societies and ...

The writer of this terse diary entry was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who had won renown five years earlier for being the first to sail the Arctic's fabled Northwest Passage from the ...

In preparation for the South Pole expedition Amundsen led a six-man team on the first successful expedition to sail through the Northwest Passage, the sea route through the Arctic Ocean along the ...

A look at the search for the fabled Northwest passage, the legendary path through ... Sir John Franklin and penniless Norwegian Roald Amundsen.

Cruise into Gjoa Haven's historic Arctic port, where Inuit culture meets polar exploration and unforgettable adventures await ...

Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole, beating his British rival, Robert Falcon Scott.

Hurtigruten's expedition cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen was named after a colossal ... explorer to reach the South Pole and to sail the Northwest Passage. And at least in terms of size, MS Roald ...

In 1906, Roald Amundsen became the first European to ... Journeys through the northwest passage have grown too, but remain very low. Ships entering its straits increased from 112 in 2013 to ...