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Did you know that today is the 150th birthday of Roald Amundsen? Who is that you ask? Well, he was a Norwegian explorer. And not just any explorer.
He was, in fact, the first to reach the South Pole, the first to navigate and make a ship voyage through the Northwest Passage, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air. He was among the most influential people in the history of polar exploration.
Victory awaits him, who has everything in order – luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions – bad luck we call it.
Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen was born on 16 July 1872 into a family of Norwegian shipowners and captains in Borge. On Adrien de Gerlache’s Belgian Antarctic Expedition from 1897 to 1899, he made his polar exploration debut as first mate.
And to make history, on December 14, 1911, he triumphed, raising the Norwegian flag at the South Pole.
He gave the Norwegian queen’s name, Queen Maud, to the mountain range he traversed en route to the South Pole.
Amundsen took great pride in the being referred to as “the last of the Vikings.”
Unfortunately, Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic and mysteriously, the crew was never found.
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