{"id":782,"date":"2021-11-08T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2021-11-08T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:14:18","slug":"roald-amundsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Roald Amundsen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen <\/strong>(Born 16 July 1872 \u2013 Died\u200918 June 1928) was a <strong>Norwegian explorer<\/strong> of <strong>polar regions<\/strong>. He was a key figure of the period known as the <strong>Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Roald-Amundsen-1923.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-594\" width=\"343\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Roald-Amundsen-1923.jpg 589w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Roald-Amundsen-1923-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in <strong>Borge, \u00d8stfold, Norway<\/strong>, Amundsen began his career as a polar explorer as first mate on <strong>Adrien de Gerlache&#8217;s Belgian Antarctic Expedition<\/strong> of 1897\u20131899. From 1903 to 1906, he led the first expedition to <strong>successfully traverse <\/strong>the <strong>Northwest Passage <\/strong>on the sloop Gj\u00f8a. In 1909, Amundsen began planning for a South Pole expedition. He <strong>left Norway <\/strong>in <strong>June 1910 <\/strong>on the ship <strong>Fram <\/strong>and reached Antarctica in <strong>January 1911<\/strong>. His party established a camp at the <strong>Bay of Whales<\/strong> and a series of supply depots on the <strong>Barrier <\/strong>(now known as the <strong>Ross Ice Shelf<\/strong>) before setting out for the pole in <strong>October<\/strong>. <strong>The party of five, led by Amundsen, became the first to successfully reach the South Pole on 14 December 1911.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/home-bjqWc5-4t3ekQ_j.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/home-bjqWc5-4t3ekQ_j.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/home-bjqWc5-4t3ekQ_j-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a <strong>failed<\/strong> <strong>attempt <\/strong>in 1918 to reach the <strong>North Pole <\/strong>by traversing the <strong>Northeast Passage <\/strong>on the ship Maud, Amundsen began planning for an aerial expedition instead. <strong>On 12 May 1926, Amundsen and 15 other men in the airship Norge became the first explorers verified to have reached the North Pole<\/strong>. Amundsen disappeared in <strong>June 1928 <\/strong>while flying on a rescue mission for the airship Italia in the Arctic. The search for his remains, which have not been found, was called off in September of that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Polarskipet_Maud.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-596\" width=\"449\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Polarskipet_Maud.jpg 626w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Polarskipet_Maud-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (Born 16 July 1872 \u2013 Died\u200918 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Borge, \u00d8stfold, Norway, Amundsen began his career as a polar explorer as first mate on Adrien de Gerlache&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=782\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roald Amundsen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}