My Life as an Explorer

Amundsen, Roald

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“…In these instances it is evident that Riiser-Larsen interacted with Nobile in a way that only one of equal or higher rank (i.e., SIC) could do. It is extremely doubtful that the actions performed by Riiser-Larsen-for instance, he "sprang to the wheel himself, thrust Nobile roughly to one side, and himself spun the wheel around" (Amundsen 1927a: 178)-would have or could have been performed by someone who was of lesser rank and not fulfilling the specific role of an SIC.…”

Section: Underlying Cause: No Sicmentioning

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No second-in-command: human fatigue and the crash of the airship Italia revisited

Bendrick

Alessandrini

2019

Polar Research

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Section: Underlying Cause: No Sicmentioning

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No second-in-command: human fatigue and the crash of the airship Italia revisited

Bendrick

Alessandrini

2019

Polar Research

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“…Due to the poor condition of Fram on return to Norway in 1914, Amundsen had a new polar ship built, this time at Christian Jensen's shipyard at Vollen in Asker. The keel was laid in 1916, and Amundsen named the ship Maud in honour of the Norwegian Queen on 7 June 1917 (Amundsen, ). The ship incorporated some of Fram ’s fittings, including the masts, windlass, helm, and propeller (Wisting, : 47).…”

Section: The History Of Maud and Baymaudmentioning

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“…Amundsen was plagued by accidents on the expedition. He broke his arm in a fall from the ship, was lightly mauled by a polar bear, and nearly died of carbon monoxide poisoning (Amundsen, , ). By 1925, strapped for cash, Amundsen was forced to sell Maud to the Hudson's Bay Company.…”

Section: The History Of Maud and Baymaudmentioning

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Iconic Arctic Shipwrecks, Archaeology, and Museum Narratives

Wickler

2019

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

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This article reflects on three Arctic shipwrecks currently being reclaimed for future exhibition. Two are icons of polar exploration. Maud was built for Roald Amundsen's North Pole expedition (1917–1925) and Belgica was used in the first Antarctic overwintering expedition (1897–1899). The salvage of Maud in Canada and the ship's return to Norway in 2018 was privately financed. Raising Belgica has been the goal of a Belgian non‐profit organization. The third is a medieval Norwegian wreck excavated in 2017 with community funding. The role of each ship as icon and archaeological heritage is assessed and framed within a broader discussion of museum narratives.

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“…In particular, he pointed to Nobile's reaction to the hardships as evidence of his weak character. 63 Other descriptions of the landscape focused less on an immediate danger than on a sense of the environment as generally threatening or malevolent. As in coverage of the 1925 flights, in order to establish its malice, the landscape's scale is emphasized, with its vastness reinforced, not diminished, by the explorer's new range of vision.…”

Section: The Flight Of the Norgementioning

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Polar Horizons: Images of the Arctic in Accounts of Amundsen’s Polar Aviation Expeditions

Cronin

2011

scientia

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Despite the conquest of the poles in the pre-war era, in the interwar years explorers continued to be drawn towards the poles—only now they travelled by air. Historians of exploration have argued that the introduction of this modern technology raised the explorer far above the perils of the polar ice, thereby eliminating the danger and hardship at the core of heroic exploration narratives. In this argument, the use of aircraft marked the end of the age of heroic exploration. Examining the press coverage of Roald Amundsen’s polar flights, however, reveals a more complex picture. Although the use of aircraft introduced tensions into the exploration narrative, particularly with regard to the images of the Arctic landscape deployed in these stories, analyzing these images highlights the ways in which the polar landscape was constructed in order to both renegotiate and rearticulate heroic exploration narratives in the era of polar aviation.

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My Life as an Explorer

Abstract: This book reproduces the text of the original edition. The content and language reflect the beliefs, practices and terminology of their time, and have not been updated.

Cited by 9 publications

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No second-in-command: human fatigue and the crash of the airship Italia revisited

No second-in-command: human fatigue and the crash of the airship Italia revisited

Iconic Arctic Shipwrecks, Archaeology, and Museum Narratives

Polar Horizons: Images of the Arctic in Accounts of Amundsen’s Polar Aviation Expeditions

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