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 Antarctic
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 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 Amundsen Circle, in Staten Island, New York Amundsena Street, in Moscow, Russia
Extraterrestrial Amundsen, crater near the Moon's south pole 1065 Amundsenia, asteroid
Ships
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 Roald Dahl, British author Roald Hoffmann, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Roald Sagdeev, Russian physicist
Other 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
Amundsen (disambiguation)
References