Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer who made a number of notable achievements during his lifetime, including leading the first expedition to the South Pole in 1911.
In recognition of Amundsen's accomplishments, a number of places in the Arctic and Antarctic have been named after him, as well as numerous entities in other fields.
Places edit
Antarctic edit
- Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, jointly named with his rival Robert Falcon Scott
- Amundsen Sea, arm of the Southern Ocean
- Amundsen Plain, abyssal plain in the Southern Ocean
- Amundsen Bay
- Amundsen Coast
- Amundsen Glacier
- Amundsen Icefall
- Mount Amundsen
Arctic edit
- Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower, research tower in Svalbard, jointly named with Umberto Nobile
- Amundsen Basin, abyssal plain in the Arctic Ocean
- Amundsen Gulf, arm of the Arctic Ocean
- Amundsen Land, Greenland
- Roaldryggen, mountain ridge in Svalbard
Elsewhere edit
- Amundsen Circle, in Staten Island, New York
- Amundsena Street, in Moscow, Russia
Extraterrestrial edit
- Amundsen, crater near the Moon's south pole
- 1065 Amundsenia, asteroid
Ships edit
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- HNoMS Roald Amundsen, frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy
- CCGS Amundsen, icebreaker and Arctic research vessel of the Canadian Coast Guard
- MS Roald Amundsen, Norwegian cruise ship
- Roald Amundsen, German brig
People edit
- Roald Dahl, British author[1]
- Roald Hoffmann, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Roald Sagdeev, Russian physicist[2]
Other edit
- Roald Amundsen (PH-BTE), Boeing 737 of KLM
- Roald Amundsen (LN-LNE), Boeing 787 of Norwegian Long Haul
- Roald Amundsen, a private railway car built by the Pullman Company
- Amundsen, one of two probes on the Deep Space 2 mission
- Amundsen High School, in Chicago, Illinois
- Amundsen, 2019 biographical film about Amundsen's life
- Amundsenia which is a genus of saxicolous lichens in the family Teloschistaceae
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Radeska, Tijana (28 November 2018). "Getting to Know the Real Roald Dahl – An Imagination for the Ages". The Vintage News. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ Sagdeev, Roald Z.; Garwin, Richard (1994). "The Making of a Soviet Scientist". Physics Today. 47 (10): 69. doi:10.1063/1.2808671.