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    • Roald Amundsen

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    Quick Facts:

    He led the first expedition to reach the South Pole and was the first person to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage.

    Roald Amundsen

    Photograph of Roald Amundsen (Credit: National Library of Norway)

    Introduction
    Roald Amundsen, nicknamed “The Last of the Vikings” was an Arctic explorer, and the first man to reach the South Pole in 1911.A natural explorer, Amundsen was also the first to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage, and reach the North Pole by flight.

    Biography
    Early Life
    The youngest of four brothers, Roald Engeberth Garvning Amundsen, was born July 16, 1872 in the Norway capital of Christiania, present day Oslo. He was the fourth son of Jens Engeberth Amundsen, a wealthy shipping business tycoon. While Amundsen received the best education money could buy, he did not particularly care for school and would often receive barely passing grades. But it was in school that Amundsen would read of the ad