Roald Amundsen - 1903-1906

Roald Amundsen

Accomplishments:

• Amundsen's expedition spent 19 months in Gjoa Haven on King William Island making magnetic observations in the vicinity of the North Magnetic Pole
• Hansen, a member of the party, charted the eastern coast of Victoria Island from Gateshead Island to Cape Nansen
• in his journey from Peel Sound to Dolphin and Union Strait, Amundsen navigated the last unsailed link in one of the routes of the Northwest Passage

Interesting Facts:

• Amundsen was also the first person to reach the South Pole in the Antarctic some years later

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Information taken from Arctic Canada, Volume I, Third Edition, 1982