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Roald
Amundsen
* 1872 in Borge/Norway
+ 1928
nahe der Bäreninsel
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of
polar regions.
As the leader of the Antarctic expedition of 1910–12, which
was the first to reach the South Pole, on 14 December 1911.
In 1926, he was the first expedition leader for the air
expedition to the North Pole,
making him the first person, without dispute, to reach both
poles
2017 J. Giesen