The Roald Amundsen Sesquicentennial
Born 150 years ago, the great Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) now widely believed to have been the man who led the first expeditions to reach the South (1911) and North (1926) Poles. Sticks in the craw, doesn’t it? We’d long known that Amundsen beat Robert Scott to the South Pole (as we wrote here), but it wasn’t until fairly recently that it was established that he had also beaten…
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