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 ...

Roald Amundsen was born in Borge, Norway, in July 1872 and raised in nearby Oslo. He spent his teen years living with his mother; his father died when Amundsen was 14 years old, and his older ...

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 ...

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 ...

The great polar explorer Roald Amundsen stood by himself on the frozen Arctic shore, staring into the distance. He was fifty-three years old—but looked seventy-five—and bankrupt. On the ice in ...

A ship that once belonged to famed Norwegian arctic explorer Roald Amundsen has been recovered after almost a century immersed in the icy depths of Cambridge Bay in Canada. The Maud was one of ...

A ship that once belonged to famed Norwegian arctic explorer Roald Amundsen has been recovered after almost a century immersed in the icy depths of Cambridge Bay in Canada. The Maud was one of ...