Amundsen North Pole

Amundsen north pole. Amundsen had previously in early 1925 flown to within 150 nautical miles 280 km of the north pole in a pair of italian built dornier wal flying boats along with the american millionaire adventurer lincoln ellsworth and the pilot hjalmar riiser larsen but their planes were forced to land near 88 degrees north and the six men were trapped on. The first expedition to reach the geographic south pole was led by the norwegian explorer roald amundsen he and four others arrived at the pole on 14 december 1911 five weeks ahead of a british party led by robert falcon scott as part of the terra nova expedition amundsen and his team returned safely to their base and later heard that scott and his four companions had died on their return. In 1926 the italian arctic explorer and aeronautical engineer umberto nobile designed norge an airship that took the restless norwegian explorer along with 15 other men including ellsworth and riiser larsen to make the first crossing of the arctic. Once the planes were airborne they would proceed to the north pole verify their location then return to spitsbergen.

Once word of peary s north pole expedition reached amundsen he made a careful decision. There is no doubt that amundsen s plan is a very serious menace to ours scott wrote in. He acquired a new ship the maud and tried in 1918 to complete his old plan of drifting across the north pole but he was forced to abandon this scheme in favour of trying to reach the north pole by airplane in a flight 1925 with the american explorer lincoln ellsworth he arrived to. After hearing about the conquest of the north pole roald amundsen from norway decided to change routes and secretly drove his ship fram toward antarctica.

The norge was a semi rigid italian built airship that carried out the first verified trip of any kind to the north pole an overflight on 12 may 1926 it was also the first aircraft to fly over the polar ice cap between europe and america. From the northwest passage to the north pole was a relatively short jump for amundsen and immediately following his return from canada to norway in 1906 he set about staging his mission to be the first to set foot there. Amundsen ellsworth and the pilots believed that the flying boats were capable of taking off fully loaded from the ice covered bay. Amundsen planned to freeze the maud into the polar ice cap and drift towards the north pole as nansen had done with the fram and he did so off cape chelyuskin.

Amundsen s dornier n 25 do j before the departure to the north pole. In june of 1910 norwegian adventurer roald amundsen set off for the north pole. Snow and ice would actually offer less resistance than a takeoff from open water. The expedition was the brainchild of polar explorer and expedition leader roald amundsen the airship s designer and pilot umberto nobile and american.