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Roald Amundsen
 
* 1872 in Borge/Norway

+ 1928 nahe der Bäreninsel

   

Roald Amundsen    Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.
As the leader of the Antarctic expedition of 1910–12, which was the first to reach the South Pole, on 14 December 1911.
In 1926, he was the first expedition leader for the air expedition to the North Pole,
making him the first person, without dispute, to reach both poles


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