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The Royal Alberta Museum presents:
Cold Recall - Roald Amundsen's Reflections
from the Northwest Passage
Saturday, Jan 19 – Sunday, Apr 28, 2013
Location: Royal Alberta Museum
12845 - 102 Avenue NW
City: Edmonton
Event: Royal Alberta Museum
Details: The exhibition features large-
scale reproductions of lantern slides and other images taken
by the famed Norwegian explorer.
Category: Museums / Attractions
Cost: Museum admission
Link: www.royalalbertamuseum.ca …
Roald Amundsen was among the first to winter in Antarctica. He was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage in one and the same ship. He was the first to reach the South Pole, a navigator of the Northeast Passage, and the first to fly to latitude 88°N. He was the first to fly across the Arctic Ocean.
Amundsen was born on 16 July 1872 on a small farm in south-eastern Norway, of a family of farmers and sailors. He was not an academic of nature, and from the age of 15 he had decided he would be a polar explorer. He was inspired by the story of the Franklin expedition (1845-48) and all the later expeditions that had searched the area north of the Canadian mainland for the two lost ships and 129 men. Amundsen's first goal was therefore the navigation of the Northwest Passage.
The exhibition features large-scale reproductions of lantern slides and other images taken by the famed Norwegian explorer, who in 1905 became the first man to navigate the Northwest Passage. Scenes of life aboard the expedition's ship, the Gjoa Haven, of equipment used in making magnetic observations, and of Inuit individuals who assisted the expedition are illuminated by Amundsen's own commentary.
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