Polar adventurers, scientists and the prime minister of Norway gathered at the bottom of the world Wednesday to mark the 100th anniversary of explorer Roald Amundsen becoming the first to reach the ...
08:29, Wed, Dec 14, 2016 Updated: 08:51, Wed, Dec 14, 2016 The animated Doodle shows a lonely but warm looking tent being lashed by a blizzard. The Geographic South Pole is not the same as the ...
The great polar explorer Roald Amundsen stood by himself on the frozen Arctic shore, staring into the distance. He was fifty-three years old—but looked seventy-five—and bankrupt. On the ice in front ...
On December 14, 1911, one hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen, and a small team of four others, accomplished what no one else had ever done before: they reached the South Pole. At the time, this was ...
While the following assertion may be known to some, it probably hasn’t yet seeped into popular consciousness, and so bears repetition at the outset: Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen, born in July ...
In 1905, when he was preparing to sail out of Gjoa Haven in Canada's High Arctic, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen buried a few artifacts beneath a cairn. Those artifacts, among them a photo of a ...
Editor's Note: This archival story was first published on June 30, 2021. MOORHEAD — When new students come to Concordia College in Moorhead, they’ll get the grand tour from the dorms to the dining ...
Polar adventurers, scientists and the prime minister of Norway gathered at the bottom of the world Wednesday to mark the 100th anniversary of explorer Roald Amundsen becoming the first to reach the ...