Two years earlier Amundsen had been immersed in plans to extend his exploration of the Arctic Ocean and to drift over the North Pole, when he received news (later contested) that Robert Peary had ...

the first verified attainment of the North Pole was in 1926 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen - who was also the first person to reach the South Pole. He flew over it on an airship. 10.

He had secretly ruled out attempting to reach the North Pole, because Americans Robert Peary and Frederick Cook had already laid claim to that feat. Amundsen even kept his plans for a South Pole ...

In preparation for the South Pole expedition Amundsen led a six-man team on the first successful expedition to sail through the Northwest Passage, the sea route through the Arctic Ocean along the ...

Three days later, she reached the geographic North Pole. That they penetrated so far in five-star luxury, a far cry from the hardships endured by explorers such as Roald Amundsen and Sir John Franklin ...

Six years later Roald Amundsen would become the first man to reach the South Pole. But it would be more than a decade and several attempts after that before someone would reach the North Pole.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Arctic was still a vast, unexplored and unknown expanse of ice and snow to western ...