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Amundsen

Norwegian polar explorer, the first person to reach the South Pole. Born on July 16, 1872 in Borger near Oslo. Served in the Norwegian Navy. In 1901, he went to northeast Greenland to conduct oceanographic research. From 1903 to 1906, he sailed through the Northwest Passage (from the northwest Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean) for the first time in a sloop and discovered the North Magnetic Pole. After learning that R.E. Peary had successfully reached the North Pole, he actively prepared to explore the South Pole. Departing from Norway on the Fram in June 1910, he arrived at Walvis Bay on the Antarctic continent on January 3, 1911. On October 20, 1911, Amundsen and four companions set out for Antarctica by dog ??sled. Arrived on December 14th. Amundsen conducted observations and research in Antarctica and left on December 17. From May 11 to 13, 1926, Amundsen, American explorer L. Ellsworth, and Italian aeronautical engineer U. Nobile took an airship from Norway to Alaska, flying over the North Pole for the first time. On June 18, 1928, Amundsen died in a crash during a flight to the North Pole. His major works include "Antarctica" (1912), "My Life as an Explorer" (1927), etc.

In the long history of mankind, there are 6 magical explorers. Their explorations may have changed the entire world!

From today's perspective, these little stories and those terrible experiences are more like a series (some of them have indeed been made into movies or TV): whether on the rough sea, or In the dry and hot desert, these six fearless explorers bravely faced everything and finally discovered places on the earth that no one knew existed.

If you think they are nothing special - just someone fighting a lion, someone swallowing a mouse... then if you have the guts, go and explore! ...

Ponce de Leon: Discovered the "Land of Sunshine"

Expedition Result: Discovery of Florida

Time: 1513...

There was once a legend that there was a spring called the Fountain of Youth. The first person to taste the Fountain of Youth would gain wealth, fame and the chance to be young again. But the problem is, no one knows where this legendary spring is.

Spanish explorer Pons de Leon set sail from South America and went all the way to Turkey Island and San Salvador Island, but he did not find it. Although Pons did not find the Fountain of Youth, he did gain wealth and fame as the first European to set foot on this land and name it "Pascua Florida" (what we call Florida today) .

Marco Polo: Entering China

Expedition results: One of the first Europeans to investigate China

Time: Began in 1271

In the Middle Ages, when other friends were still addicted to the game of marbles, Marco Polo's father and uncle asked him if he wanted to travel with them on horseback from Italy to China. Now, let’s take a look at the truly incredible thing: this adventurous 17-year-old boy agreed without hesitation!

Marco said that during the trip, he seemed to hear the call of death in the desert. However, when he arrived at the huge and glorious Yuan Dadu (the capital of the Yuan Dynasty), he felt that it was all worth it. Because everything is so magical: paper (money) that can be used to buy things, colorful tattoos, rhinos that look like mythical unicorns...

Marco wrote a very popular book about this trip book "The Travels of Marco Polo". Later, it was this book that aroused the adventurous spirit of another Italian youth: Christopher Columbus.

Ferdinand Magellan: Traveling around the world

Expedition results: the first circumnavigation of the world

Time: Began in 1519

In the time of Ferdinand Magellan, people believed that the earth was round, but no one traveled around the world to prove this fact.

Therefore, it became Magellan's unshirkable responsibility to prove the shape of the earth.

A terrible storm nearly destroyed his fleet. Due to food shortages, he and his team members had to eat rats on the ship to satisfy their hunger. Three years later, only five ships successfully reached the finish line. It was these ships that brought back the first group of warriors to sail around the world.

David Livingston: "Breaking" into Africa

Expedition results: the first expedition to Central Africa

Time: 1841 to 1873

For Scottish doctor and missionary David Livingston, traveling through the deserts, rainforests and barren mountains of Africa meant realizing his own dream. He fought a lion and nearly lost an arm; he discovered one of the world's largest waterfalls and named it Victoria after the Queen of England.

He lost his sight while searching for the source of the Nile. Five years later, journalist Henry Stein found Dr. Livingston in front of a small hut and put forward the famous slogan: "Dr. Livingston, I want to do it!" This slogan inspired countless people Later explorers.

Robert Peary: Reaching the North Pole

Expedition Result: First to reach the North Pole

Time: 1909

Robert Peary and His trusted partner Mather Hansen (another talented explorer) and four other team members headed north together. On the way to the North Pole, they eradicated 15-meter-high ice peaks, endured extremely cold weather, and encountered endless fog - the fog seemed to be the black smoke rising from the burning North American prairie.

When they finally arrived at the North Pole, the ragged Peary was so excited that he waved the American flag sewn by his wife and truly felt that he was standing on top of the world.

Rod Amundsen: Reaching the South Pole

Expedition results: The first to reach the South Pole

Time: 1911

On the way to the North Pole During the voyage, Rod Amundsen suddenly decided to go to Antarctica. Because he believes that it is "cooler" to be the first person to reach Antarctica than to explore the land that has been developed. "I will defeat you there!" Amundsen passed the news to his competitor, the explorer Robert Scott, who was on his way to the Antarctic.

In the coldest place in the world, Amundsen relied on dogs to drag a sled across the snow-covered wasteland. It turned out to be a brilliant idea. Because Scott chose a pony as a means of transportation, but the result was terrible, as the horse's hooves kept slipping on the snow. In the end, Amundsen reached the South Pole four weeks before Scott.