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 ...

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 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 ...

Of all the brave Britishers who for 400 years had given freely of their treasure, courage, and enterprise to dauntless but unsuccessful attempts to negotiate the Northwest Passage, none was braver ...

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

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

A look at the search for the fabled Northwest passage ... British explorer Sir John Franklin and penniless Norwegian Roald Amundsen.