[ noun ] Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928) <noun.person>
Absentees at Amundsen are down significantly from a year ago when an average of 76 percent of students attended school on any given day, Tarvardian said. "Yesterday, we had 90 percent (attendance)," she said.
Officer Robert Amundsen of the sheriff's police was hit in the foot, but his injury was not serious.
Robert Falcon Scott, died in the Antarctic snows in 1912 after being beaten to the South Pole by a Norwegian, Roald Amundsen.
Team members reached the South Pole _ the halfway mark of their journey _ on Dec. 11 to become the first to reach the bottom of the world by dogsled since Roald Amundsen discovered the Pole in 1911.
If neither Peary nor Byrd reached the Pole, then credit for being the first belongs to Roald Amundsen and 15 others who flew a dirigible over the Pole (but did not land) in 1926.
In 1928, Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian polar explorer, vanished into the Arctic Ocean.