In 1903 Roald Amundsen and his crew aboard the sloop Gjøa began a mission to sail through the Northwest Passage and around the northern Canadian coast. They reached Cape Colborne (in present-day Nunavut) in August 1905, overwintered at Herschel Island in the Yukon, and arrived in Nome, Alaska, in August 1906 to a heroes’ welcome.
How did Roald Amundsen become famous?
How did Roald Amundsen die?
In 1928 Roald Amundsen lost his life flying to rescue Italian aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile, whom he had accompanied in a dirigible flight over the North Pole in 1926, from a dirigible crash at sea near Spitsbergen, Norway. The airplane carrying Amundsen, searching for survivors of Nobile’s crash, also crashed, and Amundsen’s remains were never found.