Norge (airship)
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Norge was an Italian-built, semi-rigid airship that carried out the first verified trip of any kind to the North Pole, an overflight on 11-14 May 1926; Norge was also the first aircraft to fly over th
Norge airship in flight 1926
Fragments from Norge's tail
Norge prior to departure at Ciampino Airport
Mast in Vadsø
Roald Amundsen
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Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Norge (airship)
…also the first aircraft to fly over the polar ice cap between Europe and America. The expedition was conceived by polar explorer and expedition leader Roald Amundsen, the airship's designer and pilot Umberto Nobile, and the wealthy American adventurer and explorer Lincoln Ellsworth who, along with the Norsk…
Amundsen c. 1923
Roald Amundsen as a young boy in 1875
RV Belgica frozen in the ice, 1898
Amundsen c. 1908