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roald amundsen
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 * ** jarryd: A brief biography of your life as an explorer/scientist. You might like to include the selection criteria for employees in Antarctica( based on a real person or made up) **
 * ** jarryd What work have you done in Antarctica? **
 * ** Maddi: What are the advantages and disadvantages of your role? **
 * ** Jackson: How are you a model of stewardship? **
 * ** Marissa: Choose one aspect of Antarctic life (living conditions, nature or climate) to give a detailed insight to your audience. **
 * ** All: Develop four questions that you could ask your audience about your work as an explorer **

**How is Roald Amundsen a model of stewardship?**

what are the advantages and disadvantages of being an explorer?

** Avantages: **

 * ====** learning interesting facts **====
 * ====** discovering new history about the antarctica **====
 * ====** exporing native animals **====
 * ** learning the true meaning of antarctica **
 * ** you get to see beautiful animals and scenery all day long **
 * ** finding out the history of other explorers/scientists **
 * ** uncovering the climate of different places **
 * ** discovering new species of animals **
 * ** finding out the history of Antarctica **


 * disadvantages **
 * ====** putting yourself in dangerous risks **====
 * ** not seeing your family/siblings/friends very often **
 * ====** possibly getting sick because the temperature might not be what you're used to **====
 * ====** putting yourself at risk of getting lost because you don't know where you're going **====

==== Roald Amundsen was born on July 16, 1872 to Jen Amundsen and Hanna Sahlqvist in the town of Borge in Norway. He was the first explorer to reach the South Pole. He was the first to take a ship voyage through the Northwest Passage. He was also one of the first to to cross the Arctic by air. Roald Amundsen had been inspired by Fridtjof Nandsen crossing of Greenland in 1888. ==== ====  In 1897 Roald sailed on a Belgian journey that lead him to be the first in Antartica in winter. In 1903 he was one of the first people to sail the sea route through the Arctic ocean along the coasts of North America and around the norhern Canadian coast. ====   Amundsen wanted to be the first man to go to the North Pole. However, American Robert Peary got there first in 1909. When Amundsen found out that he could not be first, he decided to be the first man to reach the South Pole.

He left Norway in June, 1910. He set up his base sixty miles closer to the Pole than explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who was also trying to be the first to reach the South Pole. Amundsen set out on October 19, 1911. They reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911, before Scott and his team. they spent three days there making sure they had reached the correct position       In 1926 Amundsen went on a flight with a 14 other explorers. They were the first to fly over the North Pole from Europe to Alaska     Heis mother died when he was twenty one in 1893, and he was sad.