AMUNDSEN

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• AMUNDSEN (noun)
  The noun AMUNDSEN has 1 sense:

1. Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928)

  Familiarity information: AMUNDSEN used as a noun is very rare.

• AMUNDSEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Amundsen; Roald Amundsen

Instance hypernyms:

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

 Context examples 

The study found that ice flow from West Antarctica — the Amundsen Sea sector, the Getz Ice Shelf and Marguerite Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula — accounted for 89 percent of the increase.

(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)

In decades prior, major British expeditions had attempted to be the first to reach the North and South Poles only to come in second place behind the Americans (Robert Peary's expedition to the North Pole) and the Norwegians (Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole).

(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A study reveals that local and regional factors influence the Ross Ice Shelf's stability, and highlights connections between the Ross and Amundsen Seas, refining predictions of how climate may influence melt rates in the future.

(Study in Antarctic waters reveals why Ross Ice Shelf melts in summer, National Science Foundation)

The study presents multiple lines of evidence, incorporating 40 years of observations that indicate the glaciers in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica have passed the point of no return, according to glaciologist and lead author Eric Rignot, of UC Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)