Chater of Captain Roald Amundsen's account of his expedition to the Antarctic regions in the Fram, which culminated in the attainment of the south pole, and settled the last of the old romantic ...

However Dahl is just as famed for his whizzpopping way with words ... Dahl, born to Norwegian parents, was named after Roald Amundsen – aka the iconic Norwegian polar explorer.

For one man to have conquered the Northwest Passage, the North Magnetic Pole, and the South Pole is almost beyond imagination, yet Roald Amundsen ... sums up what Amundsen and his kind were ...

At approximately 3pm on December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen raised the flag of Norway at the South Pole, and naming the spot Polheim -- "Pole Home." He and his crew returned to their base camp on ...