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Roald Amundsen

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    Aug 25, 2011 |Story| Daily Pilot

  1. Check It Out: Exploring Antarctica from the comfort of home

    Nearly 100 years ago, Norwegian Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole. His team of five men and 16 dogs arrived at their destination in December 1911. Leaving behind a small tent and a letter stating their accomplishment, they...

    Tags: Libraries, Marathon, Dog (animal)

    2. Oct 12, 2011 |Story| Aberdeen News

  2. King Harald, Queen Sonja arrive in Minnesota

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway have arrived in St. Paul for their eight-day tour of Minnesota and Iowa.     Four-year-old Bergen Gandrud Pickett, named for the Norwegian city, greeted the king and queen with a curtsey...

    Tags: Mayo Clinic, International Travel, Hospitals and Clinics

    3. Apr 6, 2011 |Story| Hola Hoy
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    4. Oct 24, 2010 |Story| Hola Hoy
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    Tags: Uruguay

    5. Nov 15, 2010 |Story| Hola Hoy
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    Tags: Paul Davies, Barack Obama, NASA

    6. Oct 14, 2007 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Patagonia: Two at the tip

    Tribune staff reporter
    They're the South American equivalents of Williams, Ariz. And why? Because Williams only matters to us tourists -- and only has all those motel rooms -- because a well-known ditch called the Grand Canyon is an hour up the road. Ushuaia, in Argentina,...

    Tags: Companies and Corporations, Air Transportation Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Argentina, Hotels and Accommodations

    7. Jul 2, 2007 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Once frozen in time, artifacts now rotting

    Tribune staff reporter
    The dark, silent interiors of the three wooden huts are still pungent from the smoke of seal-blubber fires that once warmed men now long dead. Their dishes, pots, pans and scientific paraphernalia are scattered across tables and counters, and tins and...

    Tags: Research, Death, Disasters, Salt, University of Minnesota

    8. Dec 21, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Travel book reviews

    National Geographic Society Exploration Experience: The Heroic Exploits of the World's Greatest Explorers National Geographic, $50 All the great explorers, from Christopher Columbus and James Cook to John Cabot and Henry Hudson to David Livingstone...

    Tags: Grateful Dead (music group), Republic of Ireland, McDonald's, Africa, David Livingstone

    9. Nov 1, 2005 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Polar duplicates

    SIMON DAGLISH and friend James Daly scored some creative Halloween costumes this year — replicas of the gear worn by Capt. Robert Scott on his ill-fated 1911 South Pole expedition, down to the beaver-skin mitts and reindeer boots. Except the outfits...

    Tags: Halloween, Frostbite, Car Tires

    10. Jan 19, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Melting Ice, Winds of Change

    Times Staff Writer
    For 500 years, explorers nudged their ships through these Arctic waters, vainly seeking a shortcut to the riches of the East. The Northwest Passage, a deadly maze of sea ice, narrow straits and misshapen islands, still holds the traces of those who...

    Tags: South Pasadena, Disasters, U.S. Department of State, Health and Safety at Work, Environmental Pollution

    11. Jan 3, 2002 |Story| Metromix

  11. Movie review, 'The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition'

    Jan. 5 marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton, one of the last great explorers of the 20th century and a man whose most famous expedition almost ended in disaster. It was known officially as the Imperial Trans-Antarctic...

    Tags: Death, World War I (1914-1918), Navy Pier, Music Box Theatre, Documentary (genre)

    12. Mar 28, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Mars, the Reality

    The time will come when a human sets foot on Mars.
    Special to The Times
    The time will come when a human sets foot on Mars. Here's my advice: Don't take the Isuzu. The only way to get into an Isuzu Trooper wearing a spacesuit is backward, helmet first, and then to wriggle into position. And if you catch your air pack on the...

    Tags: Research, Rugby League, John Kerry, Newspaper and Magazine, Satellite Technology

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