Timeline

On board the vessel **Gjøa**//,// the crew members were the first to succeed in navigating the entirety of the passage. Starting in 1903 from the Oslo Fjord, they arrive in 1906 in Nome on the Pacific coast of Alaska. || The aircraft is damaged and they abandon the journey. || Despite the two planes landing miles apart without radio contact, the team is able to reunite. However, the N-24 is damaged. For over three weeks, the crew work on the airstrip, clearing it of ice while consuming a daily food ration of a mere pound (400g). Even with disaster so near at hand, Amundsen and his crew pack into the remaining plane, the N-25, and return triumphantly. ||
 * **Date** || **Event** ||
 * 1872,16th July || Amundsen, the fourth son of Jens and Gustava Amundsen, is born in Borge, Østfold, Norway. ||
 * 1886 || Roald Amundsen’s father, Jens Ingebrigt Amundsen, dies. ||
 * 1893 || Roald Amundsen’s mother, Gustava Amundsen, née Sahlquist, dies. ||
 * 1897-1898 || Amundsen takes part in a Belgian Antarctic expedition and travels as first mate on board the **Belgica.**
 * The Belgica Expedition**, led by the Belgian Adrien de Gerlache, is the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic. Here, Amundsen gathers experience important for his future expeditions. ||
 * 1903 -1906 || In a three-year journey, Amundsen and six other men traverse the **Northwest Passage**, the sea route connecting Europe and Asia in the Northern Hemisphere.
 * 1909, September || Two Americans, Robert Peary and Frederick Cook reach the **North Pole**. ||
 * 1910 || Amundsen hears that Cook and Peary have already claimed the North Pole, so he changes plans and secretly starts a South Expedition. ||
 * 1910, 3rd June || Amundsen leaves Oslo on board the Fram, the ship once used by Fridtjof Nansen. At sea he sends a telegram to his rival **Robert Falcon Scott**.The race to the South Pole had begun. ||
 * 1911, 14th January || Amundsen’s crew locates their base camp at the Bay of Whales. ||
 * 1911, 19th October || With four sledges and fifty-two dogs Amundsen and four other men depart for the South Pole. ||
 * 1911, 21st November || They reach the Polar Plateau after four days of walking. ||
 * 1911, 14th December || Amundsen and his crew arrive at the South Pole. ||
 * 1912, 18thJanuary || Robert Falcon Scott arrives at the South Pole ||
 * 1918 -1920 || 1918 - Amundsen begins an expedition through The Northeast Passage, with his new vessel Maud. ||
 * 1923 || Amundsen and Oskar Omdal, of the Royal Norwegian Navy, attempt to fly from Wainwright, Alaska to Spitsbergen across the North Pole.
 * 1925 || Amundsen, along with Lincoln Ellsworth, pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and three other team members, take two Dornier Do J flying boats, the N-24 and N-25 to 87° 44' north (the northernmost latitude reached by plane at that time).