Amundsen and his team were first to sail between Greenland and Alaska by way of the Northwest Passage. Years later, he also lead the team to be the first humans to set foot at the South Pole.
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He was the first explorer to reach both the North and South poles.
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Norwegian Roald Amundsen led the first team to set foot at the South Pole.
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The first undisputed sighting of the Pole was on May 12, 1926 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his American sponsor Lincoln Ellsworth from the airship Norge.In the strictest sense of attaining a pole, this does not count, as he never set foot there. Although some people credit Amundsen with being the first man to reach both poles.
Four : The North-West Passage: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the ship "Gjoa" , The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram" , The First Flight Across the Polar Sea and My Life as an Explorer .
In the Heroic Era of polar explorers, Raoul Amundsen is set apart as arguably the best. His vocation was exploring. He learned from Fridjof Nansen, a premier polar explorer of the north, who studied life and survival with native northern peoples. Amundsen understood equipment required for polar exploration and was a solid planner. Amundsen was the first human to set foot at the South Pole, among his other accomplishments. After his success in Antarctica, he returned to 'civilization' and lectured for months, raising money to pay his expedition debts. This work continued until news of Scott's demise caught up with the world, in November 2012.
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America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer and cartographer who is credited as being the first cartographer to make a map of the Americas as not being part of Asia, but being a stand alone Landmass. Specifically America is the feminized Latin version of the name Amerigo.
He was a doctor
The first undisputed sighting of the Pole was on May 12, 1926 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his American sponsor Lincoln Ellsworth from the airship Norge.In the strictest sense of attaining a pole, this does not count, as he never set foot there. Although some people credit Amundsen with being the first man to reach both poles.
In honour of his mother's request, Amundsen studied to be a doctor until she died when he was 21 years old. Then, he dedicated himself to being a professional explorer of wild and unknown polar geographies.
Four : The North-West Passage: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the ship "Gjoa" , The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram" , The First Flight Across the Polar Sea and My Life as an Explorer .
James Cook is credited with being the first European explorer to circumnavigate and chart New Zealand.
That would depend on your definition of "reach". 1773: Captain James Cook became the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle. 1820: The Antarctic continent was first seen by human eyes. Historians have disagreed on who those eyes belonged to; at least one possible claimant is believed to have seen land but mistaken it for ice at the time. Credit for being the first man to see the continent has been divided between three men who made separate voyages to Antarctica that year: Fabian von Bellingshausen, a captain in the Russian Imperial Navy; Edward Bransfield, a captain in the British navy; Nathaniel Brown Palmer, an American sealer. 1840: Frenchman Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville became the first person to set foot on Antarctica. (Some historians believe that John Davis, an American sealer, may have set foot on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1821, but even he was unsure if he landed on the continent itself or a nearby island.)
In the Heroic Era of polar explorers, Raoul Amundsen is set apart as arguably the best. His vocation was exploring. He learned from Fridjof Nansen, a premier polar explorer of the north, who studied life and survival with native northern peoples. Amundsen understood equipment required for polar exploration and was a solid planner. Amundsen was the first human to set foot at the South Pole, among his other accomplishments. After his success in Antarctica, he returned to 'civilization' and lectured for months, raising money to pay his expedition debts. This work continued until news of Scott's demise caught up with the world, in November 2012.
Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett are credited with being the first men to fly over the North Pole on May 9, 1926. However, today experts believe that Roald Amundsen may have been the first to make a verifiable claim to this feat. Byrd was a naval officer who also explored Antarctica.
Pedro Cabral was a Portuguese explorer and is credited for being the first to see Brazil
Abel Tasman is credited with being the first European explorer to discover Ven Diemen's land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand.
In 1910, Robert Falcon Scott of England and Roald Amundsen of Norway each hoped to gain the honor of being the first to reach the South Pole.
Garcia Lopez de Cardenas is credited with being the first European to see the Grand Canyon.