On Roald Amundsen's scientific achievements

Polar research

Arnoldus Schytte Blix¹ 

[1] AAB Building, Institute of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø, NO-9037 Tromsø, NorwayCorrespondence

关键词: Fridtjof Nansen;    polar exploration;    South Pole;    North-west Passage;    North-east Passage;    H.U. Sverdrup.;   

DOI  :  10.3402/polar.v35.31319

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

来源: Co-Action Publishing

【 摘 要 】

This paper describes the significant direct and indirect contributions to science made by the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen in the period 1897–1924. It documents that his expeditions through the North-west Passage (1903–06) with Gjøa, to the South Pole (1910–12) with Fram and through the North-east Passage (1918–1920) and the Chukchi and East Siberian seas (1921–25) with Maud yielded vast amounts of published scientific material on meteorology, terrestrial magnetism, geology, palaeontology, oceanography, ethnography, zoology and botany, which, though celebrated at the time, have since received scant recognition in more recent assessments of Amundsen's achievements.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC