Amundsen

American  

[ah-muhnd-suhn, ah-moon-suhn] / ˈɑ mənd sən, ˈɑ mʊn sən /

noun

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

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Amundsen British  

/ ˈaːmunsən /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

The first explorer to complete the Northwest Passage solely by ship was Norwegian seafarer Roald Amundsen, from 1903 to 1906, more than 400 years after the first recorded attempt.

From The Wall Street Journal

The glacier juts out into the Amundsen Sea, which is inaccessibly frozen over except for a few weeks in January and February.

From Scientific American

In 1905, a Norwegian man, Roald Amundsen — who went to live among the Inuit to learn how to survive in the Arctic — became the first European explorer to cross the Northwest Passage.

From New York Times

And so, every New Year's Day the words of Amundsen and Scott, inscribed as epitaphs at the geographic South Pole, are ceremonially moved to the newly measured, precise bottom of the earth.

From Salon

He added that Amundsen was a "sexual monster" whose behaviour was "an abomination and desecration of the innocence of young boys".

From BBC