List of things named after Roald Amundsen

Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer who made a number of notable achievements during his lifetime, including leading the first expedition to the South Pole in 1911.

In recognition of Amundsen's accomplishments, a number of places in the Arctic and Antarctic have been named after him, as well as numerous entities in other fields.

Places[edit]

Antarctic[edit]

Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, jointly named with his rival Robert Falcon Scott
Amundsen Sea, arm of the Southern Ocean
Amundsen Plain, abyssal plain in the Southern Ocean
Amundsen Bay
Amundsen Coast
Amundsen Glacier
Amundsen Icefall
Mount Amundsen

Arctic[edit]

Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower, research tower in Svalbard, jointly named with Umberto Nobile
Amundsen Basin, abyssal plain in the Arctic Ocean
Amundsen Gulf, arm of the Arctic Ocean
Amundsen Land, Greenland
Roaldryggen, mountain ridge in Svalbard

Elsewhere[edit]

Amundsen Circle, in Staten Island, New York
Amundsena Street, in Moscow, Russia

Extraterrestrial[edit]

Amundsen, crater near the Moon's south pole
1065 Amundsenia, asteroid

Ships[edit]

HNoMS Roald Amundsen, frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy
CCGS Amundsen, icebreaker and Arctic research vessel of the Canadian Coast Guard
MS Roald Amundsen, Norwegian cruise ship
Roald Amundsen, German brig

People[edit]

Roald Dahl, British author^[1]
Roald Hoffmann, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Roald Sagdeev, Russian physicist^[2]

Other[edit]

Roald Amundsen (PH-BTE), Boeing 737 of KLM
Roald Amundsen (LN-LNE), Boeing 787 of Norwegian Long Haul
Roald Amundsen, a private railway car built by the Pullman Company
Amundsen, one of two probes on the Deep Space 2 mission
Amundsen High School, in Chicago, Illinois
Amundsen, 2019 biographical film about Amundsen's life
Amundsenia which is a genus of saxicolous lichens in the family Teloschistaceae

References[edit]

^ Radeska, Tijana (28 November 2018). "Getting to Know the Real Roald Dahl – An Imagination for the Ages". The Vintage News. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
^ Sagdeev, Roald Z.; Garwin, Richard (1994). "The Making of a Soviet Scientist". Physics Today. 47 (10): 69. doi:10.1063/1.2808671.

[1] Radeska, Tijana (28 November 2018). "Getting to Know the Real Roald Dahl – An Imagination for the Ages". The Vintage News. Retrieved 22 March 2019.

[2] Sagdeev, Roald Z.; Garwin, Richard (1994). "The Making of a Soviet Scientist". Physics Today. 47 (10): 69. doi:10.1063/1.2808671.

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