This long sought-after route was finally traversed between 1903 & 1906 by Roald Amundsen
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The Gja Expedition (1903-1906) - Fram Museum - Fram Museum  Roald Amundsen's expedition with the Gja was the first to navigate the ... The Northwest Passage is the sailing route north of Canada's mainland coast which ... From as long ago as the 16th century Europeans were taken up with the belief ... It was after Sir John Franklin's expedition disappeared in 1845-47 with a total of...
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Roald Amundsen's "The North West Passage"; Being the Record of ...  Oct 19, 2015 ... Attempts to find the Northwest Passagea water route from Europe ... Northwest Passage finally was successfully navigated in 19036 by ... After their third winter in the Arctic, Amundsen and his crew resumed their journey on July 2, 1906. ... Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gja", 1903-1907...
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Northwest Passage | trade route, North America | Britannica.com  Nov 18, 2015 ... The route is located 500 miles (800 km) north of the Arctic Circle ... However, the Northwest Passage was not finally conquered by sea until 1905, when the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen successfully navigated the treacherous ... three-year voyage in 1906, when they arrived in Nome, Alaska, after...
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Roald Amundsen - Wikipedia  Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the ... In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. ... The crew returned to Oslo in November 1906, after almost 3.5 years abroad. It took...
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Northwest Passage - Wikipedia  The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ... In 1906, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen first successfully .... coast of North America, seeking to traverse the Passage in the westbound direction. .... In a three-year journey between 1903 and 1906, Amundsen explored the...
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Break On Through | Outside Online  Jan 2, 2004 ... In 1497, explorer John Cabot sailed as far as the southeastern ... By the mid-1800s, the quest for a shipping shortcut had crystallized .... IN 1903, THE FIRST YEAR of what would be a three-year crossing of the Northwest Passage, Roald Amundsen wrote that ice conditions "had been unusually favorable.
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Explorers of the Americas - EnchantedLearning.com  Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer who was the first ... Amundsen died in a plane crash attempting to rescue his friend, the Italian ... De Vaca and his fellow travelers were the first Europeans to see the bison, .... Cook's first journey was from 1768 to 1771, when he sailed to Tahiti in order to...
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Robert Peary - Wikipedia  Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (May 6, 1856  February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909 ... Maigaard and Peary set off together and traveled nearly 100 miles (160 km) due east before turning ... Second Greenland expedition[edit].
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Roald Amundsen - Wikipedia  Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the ... His mother wanted him to avoid the family maritime trade and encouraged him to ... It took until 1972 to have the Gja returned to Norway. ... Amundsen named their South Pole camp Polheim, meaning "Home on the Pole.
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Peary's expedition reaches North Pole? - Apr 06, 1909 - HISTORY ...  On April 6, 1909, American explorer Robert Peary accomplishes a long elusive dream, when he, assistant Matthew Henson, and four Eskimos reach ... Peary, a U.S. Navy civil engineer, made his first trip to the interior of Greenland in 1886. ... of ice to reach what they calculated as latitude 90 degrees north on April 6, 1909.
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The race to the South Pole, 1911 | Explore Royal Museums Greenwich  In 1911, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian explorer Roald ... 15.00 on 14 December 1911, Amundsen raised the flag of Norway at the South Pole. He ... Scott left his base camp with his team to the Pole on 1 November 1911. He finally reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, disappointed to learn that...
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Roald Amundsen - Wikipedia  Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of 191012 which was the first to reach the .... The crew returned to Oslo in November 1906, after almost 3.5 years abroad. It took until 1972 ... Scott was planning his own expedition to the South Pole that year.
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Roald Amundsen - Wikipedia  Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of 191012 which was the first to reach the .... Amundsen next planned to take an expedition to the North Pole and explore the Arctic Basin. ... Scott was planning his own expedition to the South Pole that year.
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Northwest Passage - Wikipedia  The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ..... In a three-year journey between 1903 and 1906, Amundsen explored the .... On July 1, 2000, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol vessel Nadon, .... a channel 160 nautical miles (300 km; 180 mi) long and 15 nautical miles...
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Amundsen reaches South Pole - Dec 14, 1911 - HISTORY.com  Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole, ... Amundsen, born in Borge, near Oslo, in 1872, was one of the great figures in ... In early 1911, Amundsen sailed his ship into Antarctica's Bay of Whales and set ... He later made attempts to become the first explorer to fly over the North Pole.
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The Gja Expedition (1903-1906) - Fram Museum - Fram Museum  Roald Amundsen's expedition with the Gja was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage north of the Canadian mainland on one expedition and one ship. ... and channels that were not relatively-well charted before the early 20th century. .... the Charles Hansson of San Francisco, commanded by Captain J. McKenna,...
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Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897 - 1899, Belgica - Cool Antarctica  The voyage of the Belgica under the command of Adrienne de Gerlache set out from ... but this was the first time a winter had been spent at Antarctic continental latitudes. ... Amongst the crew were Roald Amundsen, later to be the first man to sail the ... In any event, after much late season surveying, the ship was iced into the...
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Amundsen reaches South Pole - Dec 14, 1911 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Amundsen reaches South Pole on Dec 14, 1911. ... Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole, beating ... won the race to the Pole and returned safely to base camp in late January. .... In December of that year, snow fell almost constantly in the northern part of the...
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Nansen's Fram expedition - Wikipedia  Nansen's Fram expedition was an 18931896 attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof ... Through these years Nansen remembered the eastwest Arctic drift theory .... One applicant was the 20-year-old Roald Amundsen, future conqueror of the .... Nansen calculated that it might take the ship five years to reach the pole.
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Another of my favorite female explorers, Louise Arner Boyd is ...  Born into wealth, Louise Boyd would use her large inheritance to explore the Arctic ... be the first woman to reach the North Pole, in the relative comfort of an airplane, in 1955. ..... the first president of the Society of Woman Geographers (founded in 1925) was ...... They flew over 60 million miles in every type of military aircraft.
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The UnMuseum - Flight of the Norge - Part I  The Norge in the air over King's Bay, Norway. ... The tiny lighter-than-air craft they piloted they named the Norge. ... In 1925, Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian discoverer of the South Pole, collaborated with American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and four other men to try to fly to the North Pole using two Dornier seaplanes.