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...sense of direction was aroused to a small degree by a statement which appeared in TIME (Nov. 4) concerning the "Perambulating Pole." According to TIME, Roald Amundsen found the magnetic pole slightly northwest of where Sir James Ross had made the first reliable fix. Yet TIME plots Amundsen's fixing one degree, 15 minutes east of Ross's!! Apparently TIME is perambulating a bit itself...
Ross, who found it on the west coast of the Boothia Peninsula (see map). Roald Amundsen, in 1903-05, found it a little northwest. Until 1933 it shifted westward; then it started east again...
...Hudson's Course. Henry Hudson and Sir John Franklin, great explorers, had perished trying to do what Larsen had done. The only man to make the east-west passage before him was Roald Amundsen. Larsen, too, was a Norwegian, born some nine miles from Amundsen's birthplace in Borge, Norway. As Amundsen's ambition to conquer the Arctic had been fired by Franklin's exploits, so Larsen had been kindled by what Amundsen had done...
...June 1940 to: 1) take the schooner from Vancouver to Halifax for patrol duty in the Atlantic; 2) supply the permanent Mounted Police arctic posts along the way; 3) take the Eskimo census. Before they reached Sydney, N.S., the tough team and the tough ship had backtracked Explorer Roald Amundsen's famous three-year east-to-west trip across America's top. They had added valuable information to the world's expandingly accurate geography, survived the Arctic's most treacherous dangers, dutifully performed their assigned tasks...
...Into Eagle, after a 500-mile trek from Herschel Island, mushed beak-faced Explorer Roald Amundsen in December 1905, with news that he was three-fourths of the way around the Northwest Passage-goal of explorers since...