Amundsen Family History & Genealogy

As of the 1865 Norwegian Census, Olaves Amundsen was single / never-married.

As of the 1865 Norwegian Census, Lars Amundsen was single / never-married.

As of the 1865 Norwegian Census, Mikal Amundsen was single / never-married.

Albert Christoffer Amundsen was born on April 13, 1861, and died at age 82 years old on May 22, 1943. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Albert Christoffer Amundsen.

Ida Amundsen of Middletown, Orange County, NY was born on September 27, 1867, and died at age 101 years old in February 1969.

Born: July 16, 1872, Borge, Østfold, Norway Father: Jens Amundsen Mother: Hanna Sahlqvist Died: June 1928, Barents Sea Captain Roald Engelbregt Gavning Amundsen FAMOUS NORWEGIAN EXPLORER Roald Amundsen, in full Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen, born July 16, 1872, Borge, near Oslo, Norway—died June 18, 1928, Arctic Ocean, Norwegian explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole, the first to make a ship voyage through the Northwest Passage, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air. He was one of the greatest figures in the field of polar exploration. Amundsen studied medicine for a while and then took to sea. In 1897 he sailed as first mate on the Belgica in a Belgian expedition that was the first to winter in the Antarctic. In 1903, with a crew of six on his 47-ton sloop Gjöa, Amundsen began his mission to sail through the Northwest Passage and around the northern Canadian coast. He reached Cape Colborne (in present-day Nunavut) in August 1905, completing his transit of the passage proper, before ice halted his westerly progress for the winter at Herschel Island in the Yukon the following month. Amundsen and his crew resumed the journey in August 1906 and were greeted with a heroes’ welcome when the expedition concluded in Nome, Alaska, later that month. This achievement whetted his appetite for the spectacular in polar exploration. Amundsen’s next plan, to drift across the North Pole in Fridtjof Nansen’s old ship, the Fram, was affected by the news that the American explorer Robert E. Peary had reached the North Pole in April 1909, but he continued his preparations. When Amundsen left Norway in June 1910 no one but his brother knew that he was heading for the South Pole instead of the North. He sailed the Fram directly from the Madeira Islands to the Bay of Whales, Antarctica, along the Ross Sea. The base he set up there was 60 miles (100 km) closer to the pole than the Antarctic base of the English explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who was heading a rival expedition with the same goal. An experienced polar traveler, Amundsen prepared carefully for the coming journey, making a preliminary trip to deposit food supplies along the first part of his route to the pole and back. To transport his supplies, he used sled dogs, while Scott depended on Siberian ponies. Amundsen set out with 4 companions, 52 dogs, and 4 sledges on October 19, 1911, and, after encountering good weather, arrived at the South Pole on December 14. The explorers recorded scientific data at the pole before beginning the return journey on December 17, and they safely reached their base at the Bay of Whales on January 25, 1912. Scott, in the meantime, had reached the South Pole on January 17, but on a difficult return journey he and all his men perished. With funds resulting from his Antarctic adventure, Amundsen established a successful shipping business. He acquired a new ship, the Maud, and tried in 1918 to complete his old plan of drifting across the North Pole, but he was forced to abandon this scheme in favour of trying to reach the North Pole by airplane. In a flight (1925) with the American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth he arrived to within 150 miles (250 km) of the pole. In 1926, with Ellsworth and the Italian aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile, he passed over the North Pole in a dirigible, crossing from Spitsbergen (now Svalbard), north of Norway, to Alaska. Disputes over the credit for the flight embittered his final years. In 1928 Amundsen lost his life in flying to rescue Nobile from a dirigible crash near Spitsbergen. Amundsen’s books include The South Pole (1912) and, with Ellsworth, First Crossing of the Polar Sea (1927).

Robert Amundsen of New York was born on November 2, 1872, and died at age 92 years old in July 1965.

Alberta Amundsen of Massachusetts was born on November 21, 1873, and died at age 90 years old in February 1964.

Alvin Amundsen of Whitehall, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin was born on April 6, 1874, and died at age 94 years old in March 1969.

Charles Amundsen of San Diego, San Diego County, California was born on July 16, 1875, and died at age 90 years old in June 1966.

Iver Amundsen of Two Harbors, Lake County, Minnesota was born on October 23, 1875, and died at age 92 years old in January 1968.

Maurice Amundsen of Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota was born on August 6, 1876, and died at age 92 years old in July 1969.