Roald Amundsen Tapestries
Description: Antarctica Exploration - Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of the polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. He was the first man to reach the South Pole, and was a member of the first undisputed expedition to reach the North Pole aboard the airship Norge, which overflew the area in 1926.
Description: Explorer - Fridtjof Nansen Rules was a Norwegian explorer, polymath, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis. He won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of during his Fram expedition of 1893–1896.
Description: South Pole - Amundsen's South Pole Expedition was the first expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four other crew members made it to the geographical South Pole on the 14th of December 1911, which was to be five weeks ahead of the British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition. Amundsen and his team returned safely to their base, and about a year later heard that Scott and his four companions had perished on their return journey.
