Roald Amundsen
Books
- Eleven Miles from One Ton Scott, Amundsen, and the Fatal Margin on the Antarctic Barrier · Liszt Think
On January 17, 1912, Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole only to find Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian flag already planted.
- The Rival’s Telegram…rrying commerce and command across latitudes that ships still measured in weeks. The message had originated in Christiania, now Oslo, where Roald Amundsen had composed it with the same care he applied to navigation: sufficient information to create obligation, insufficient to create clarity. S…
- The Winter Quarters of the Mind…ly than the surviving documents acknowledge. In Melbourne, six months earlier, Scott had received a cable from Christiania, now Oslo, where Roald Amundsen had composed a message of studied neutrality: he was proceeding south. The document reached Scott on 12 or 13 October 1910, depending on wh…
- The Summit and the Norwegian Flag…he march. The effort required every calorie. Three hundred and forty miles to the north, at the Pole itself, a tent stood in perfect order. Roald Amundsen had left it there on 14 December 1911. The Norwegian had planted his flag, deposited a letter for the Norwegian king, and taken a photograp…