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Roald Amundsen-The first person to discover Antarctica

Roald Amundsen-The first person to discover Antarctica

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Around the same time, British naval officer Captain Robert Scott was also commanding Antarctica. Amundsen finished his preparations and sailed for Antarctica in June 1910, when British explorer Robert F. Scott also went to the South Pole, although his preferred destination remained the North Pole. The next expedition planned by Amundsen after successfully boarding Joa in the Northwest Passage, Fram was to borrow from fellow Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (considered the father of polar travel) Fram. No, let him freeze in the Arctic ice. In late summer or fall, they drift across (or near) the North Pole with the ice and from there to the North Pole.

Amundsen's ship Fram arrived at the Ross Ice Shelf on January 14, 1911, deciding to land at Whale Bay. This gave the Norwegians a 60-mile lead over Scott, who decided to land at McMurdo Sound. Scott had previously suggested that Amundsen might establish his base in the Weddell Sea on the opposite side of the continent; The signal that the Norwegians would start the pole race with a lead of 60 nm was a worrying prospect for the British.

Amundsen had problems and hesitation in raising funds for the departure, and in 1909, after learning that Frederick Cook and then Robert Peary was claiming the pole, he decided to go around Antarctica. However, he did not disclose these plans and the British, Robert F. Both Scott and the Norwegian cheated.

On the ship Fram ("Forward"), formerly used by Fridtjof Nansen, she left Oslo on June 3, 1910, leaving Norway for the south. On the Fram ("Forward") ship, formerly used by Fridtjof Nansen, he hit the road. Instead of Antarctica in 1910. In 1909, upon hearing that Frederick Cook and then Robert Peary was claiming the pole, he changed his plan. After months of preparation, submission, and a false start that almost ended in disaster, in October 1911 he and his group left for the Pole.

He led the Antarctic Expedition (1910–1912), becoming the first person to reach the South Pole in December 1911. In 1926, he became the first expedition leader to be undoubtedly recognized for reaching the North Pole. Amundsen was planning to become the first person at the North Pole and was about to hit the road in 1909 when he learned that American Robert Peary had achieved the feat. Much of the public interest in the expedition was based on the assumption that Amundsen would head to the North Pole, and it was confidently expected that he would succeed and become the first to reach this cherished place.

Amundsen never returned to Antarctica, all his further research would have been in the Arctic, it is likely that if he had reached the North Pole, as originally planned, he would have traveled to Antarctica after the Belgian expedition in 1897–99. I would never return. Amundsen said of himself that he never became an Arctic explorer because from the age of fifteen all his thoughts and energy were directed towards one goal: to expand our knowledge of the polar regions. Circumstances forced him to change plans and take a detour, but after crossing the Northwest Passage, his only all-consuming idea from 1908 to 1926 was to cross the Arctic Ocean and reach the North Pole.

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen originally wanted to be the first person to reach the North Pole. He received this title even before he completed his travel plan. Northwest Passage explorer Roald Amundsen left Norway at Fram in June 1910, apparently intending to circumnavigate Cape Horn, but sailed west into the South Pacific and landed on an ice sheet in Whale Bay. which covers the Ross Sea. While exploring the northern Arctic, he stopped at a port on King William Island.

In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition across the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific (explorers have been doing so since Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and Henry Hudson), and the other six are on Gozo. Roald Amundsen's polar team first arrived in the Antarctic on December 14, 1911; Five weeks later, the Polar Party, led by Robert Falcon Scott, took second place. In 1911, both British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen aspired to become the first man to reach Antarctica. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the competition of nationalism and a love for adventure drove explorers to the farthest places on the planet.

Although Norway won the award, the two countries embarked on passionate journeys in the face of environmental constraints. Roald Amundsen was a respected Norwegian explorer determined to defeat the British expedition and the first to reach the South Pole, the polar plateau.

On October 19, 1911, Amundsen made a second attempt to reach the North Pole, starting with 4 teams of 5 men and 13 dogs from Framheim with a total of 52 men. Amundsen and four of his companions reached the pole on December 14, 1911, and Scott on January 18, 1912, but Scott and his brave companions died on the way. Amundsen disappeared on June 18, 1928, along with Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilleboux, and three other French men on a rescue mission in search of the missing crew of Nobil, whose new Italian airship crashed en route. , Arctic. In August 1910, FRAM left Kristiana, Norway with a supply of 2 years and about a hundred Greenland sled dogs, which played a key role in his team's success in reaching the South Pole ahead of Scott and his team.

The group included Helmer Hansen as captain, who passed the Northwest Passage with Amundsen; Oscar Wisting, the first officer to visit the South Pole; And in between the three soft legs were Dr. H.W. Sverdrup, head of scientific work. Stubberud was persuaded to join them, leaving Amundsen, Helmer Hansen, Bjelland, Hasel, and Wisting as the New Antarctic Party.

While the trip was headed south, another group of expeditions climbed Mount Erebus, and a third reached the South Magnetic Pole and found it at 72 degrees. In March 1909, it was announced that Shackleton had reached latitude 88°23 to 97 nautical miles (180 km) from the South Pole before turning back; So, as Amundsen put it, in the south was "a corner."

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