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The first person to reach the South Pole was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian
explorer. Amundsen was born in Borge, near Oslo, Norway. He attended
the University of Christiania and then joined the Norwegian navy.
Amundsen made a three-year expedition to the Arctic beginning in 1903.
He was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, a northern water
route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. But Amundsen's greatest voyage
began in 1910, at the other end of the Earth.
He intended to go to the North Pole, but he heard that Robert Peary
had already reached it. So instead Amundsen headed to the South Pole
in his ship, Fram. He learned that a British expedition, led by Robert
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