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Ronald Amundsen

Ronald Amundsen
In 1906 Amundsen became the first to sail through the Northwest Passage but his success was overshadowed by the San Francisco earthquake


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The ‘Belgica’ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Belgica_(1884) sailed along the coast of South America from Rio to the Strait of Megellan. The area was relatively unexplored, and de Gerlache slowed the Belgica to enable the scientists to collect flora and fauna, gather species, and make meteorological observations. Cook took the opportunity to observe the care for some of the Ona and Yahgan Indians in the Tierra del Fuego region who lived a traditional life of fishing and hunting. With Dr. Cook, Amundsen attended to a group of very sick children at a mission and saw the effects of disease that had been transmitted to settlers to the region. Amundsen noted: “It will not be long before the Indians will only be a legend here. The evil of civilization has reached them and it won’t stop until the very last one has been wiped out” (Belgica Diary, 61) This experience for Amundsen profoundly affected the way he would think about his own expedition. ~ Page 54

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