Amundsen

[ah-muhnd-suhn, ah-moon-suhn]

noun

1. Roald 1872–1928, Norwegian explorer: discovered the South Pole in 1911.

Amundsen

/ ˈaːmunsən /

noun

1. Roald (ˈrɔald). 1872–1928, Norwegian explorer and navigator, who was the first man to reach the South Pole (1911)

Example Sentences

After trekking hundreds of miles, the British party reached the pole in January 1912, but they found they had been beaten by a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen.

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“Prospective actors steer clear of Mark Measures. He is a con artist,” actor Kate Amundsen wrote in a comment posted last July.

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Famed explorer Roald Amundsen was perhaps the first to recognize the importance of ice rises.

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This mechanism contributes substantially to the melting of ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica.

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Some of it appears to be caused by cyclical factors, and could be fueled by phenomena such as the interactions between the Amundsen Sea Low and Southern Annular Mode.

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