THIS BLOG IS CREATED TO DISPLAY ALL PHILATELIC ITEMS RELATED TO ARCTIC & ANTARCTICA AND IS DEDICATED TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE FRAGILE STATE OF THE POLAR REGIONS AND GLACIERS IN THIS ERA OF GLOBAL WARMING... SAVE THE POLES!!
Sunday, January 1, 2012
ROALD AMUNDSEN (NORWAY)
Born 16 July 1872
Borge, Østfold, Norway
Died c. 18 June 1928 (aged 55)
Antarctic Explorer.Roald Amundsen (1872- 1928)
Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose accomplishments include:
the first European explorer to navigate through the Northwest Passage (1903-1906)
the first man to reach the South Pole (1911)
flying over the North Pole in the airship Norge in 1926 with Riiser-Larsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and Umberto Noblie
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