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Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer. He led the Antarctic expedition of 1910–12, which on 14 Dec 1911, became the first expedition to reach the South Pole. Then, on 12 May 1926, Amundsen and 15 other men in the airship Norge became the first explorers verified to have reached the North Pole. Thus, he was the first person to have reached both the North and the South Poles.
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was born at Hvidsteen, Borge 16 July 1872 and christened 1 September the same year. [1]
On 25 May 1928 Airship Italia, a semi-rigid airship crashed on one of its polar flights. In June Amundsen participated in a rescue mission when his plane disappeared.
Amundsen never married, although he did adopt a Siberian child, Kakonita Amundsen.[2]
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