In December 1911, Norwegian Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen, along with four companions, race against the English to become ...

100 Years since Amundsen beat Scott to the pole. Dec. 18, 2011 — -- On December 14, 1911, a five-man Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen became the first explorers to reach the South Pole.

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's original footage from his South Pole expedition from 1910 to 1912.

Thanks to a growing body of Antarctic research, scientists are beginning to understand what journeys on the coldest continent ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Frostbite and hundreds of miles of icy crevasses pose timeless dangers in a new international race to the South Pole nearly a century after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beat ...

Captain Roald Amundsen, South Pole discoverer, who was frustrated by airplane defects in his attempt to fly across the North Pole from Alaska last Summer (TIME, June 18, 25), will try again next year, ...

Editor's Note: This archival story was first published on June 30, 2021. MOORHEAD — When new students come to Concordia College in Moorhead, they’ll get the grand tour from the dorms to the dining ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Six ski teams set off on an international race to the South Pole on Sunday, nearly a century after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beat Britain's Robert Scott to reach it, ...

One of the most famous polar shipwrecks has been filmed in detail on the sea floor for the first time. The Terra Nova carried ...

Launched in 2019, the Roald Amundsen is the first of two hybrid ships Hurtigruten is adding to its fleet. The ship, named for the Norwegian polar pioneer who was the first person in the world to plant ...

Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen visited Butte in April 1908. At the time he was most renowned as the first to lead a traverse of the Northwest Passage by ship, completed in 1906 with a crew of six in ...