Roald Amundsen was known as "The Last Viking." The Norwegian explorer was the first person to reach the South Pole when his team did so on Dec. 14, 1911. Photo: Wikimedia Commons ...

AMUNDSEN HERE, TELLS OF DISCOVERIES; Explorer Was Two Years in Finding the Magnetic North Pole. SAILED NORTHWEST PASSAGE Norwegians in This Country Entertained Amundsen on His Way from San Francisco.

He vanished on a 1928 rescue mission. Documents of Antarctic explorer Roald Amundsen are seen in the Concordia College archives Thursday, June 24, 2021, in Moorhead.

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first man ever to reach the South Pole, had set his sights on crossing over the North Pole in a dirigible. On May 9, 1926, Byrd made another attempt.

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to explorer biopic Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition about Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen’s epic journeys to the South and North ...

Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen visited Butte in April 1908. At the time he was most renowned as the first to lead a traverse of the Northwest Passage by ship, completed in 1906 with a crew of six ...

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (Pål Sverre Hagen) was the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, and the first person to reach both the North and South Poles in 1926.

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (Pål Sverre Hagen) was the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, and the first person to reach both the North and South Poles in 1926.

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to explorer biopic Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition about Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen’s epic journeys to the South and North Poles.