2179) Roald Amundsen (16.07.1872-18.06.1928), Explorer, Norway: 150th Birth Anniversary: Posten Norge (Norwegian Post) has brought out two Postage Stamps one of INNLAND value and the other of NOK 46 (Norwegian Kroner) commemorating the milestone: Date of Stamp issue: 05.01.2022:
About Roald Amundsen - 150th Birth Anniversary (1872-2022):
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (16.07.1872 – 18.06.1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the "Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration".
Amundsen began his career as a polar explorer as first mate on Adrien de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899.
From 1903 to 1906, he led the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage on the sloop "Gjøa" and he reached the Magnetic North Pole with this boat. He thus became the first person to sail through the Northwest Passage with the same ship.
How difficult finding the North-west passage was in the 1800s and early 1900s, can be imagined from the most prominent failed attempt decades before his time in the 1840s, when John Franklin's Expedition (also called "Franklin's Lost Expedition") - comprising two British Royal Navy ships - "HMS Erebus" and "HMS Terror" - became ice-bound, had to be abandoned and all hands were lost trying to reach the mainland habitation of the Hudson Bay Company, some 800 miles from their stranded location.
Amundsen also studied the Inuit lifestyle in Gjøahavn on King William Island, North of the Canadian mainland. This turned out to be one of the most important outcomes of the expedition, since the Inuits had not yet been influenced by other cultures.
Roald Amundsen is, also, credited with leading the first expedition to reach the South Pole.
In 1909, Amundsen began planning for a South Pole expedition.
In 06/1910, he left Norway on the ship "Fram" and reached Antarctica in January 1911.
His party established a camp at the Bay of Whales and a series of supply depots on the Barrier (now known as the "Ross Ice Shelf") before setting out for the South Pole in October.
Together with four other expedition members, he became the first to reach the South Pole on 14.12.1911 – five weeks before his rival Robert F. Scott. The scientific results were not very important, but the conquest of the South Pole - that was the ultimate goal.
His victory in the race to the South Pole gave Amundsen the recognition he needed to be able to pursue the activity that was closest to his heart, namely the exploration of the unknown parts of the Arctic.
Following a failed attempt in 1918 to reach the North Pole by traversing the Northeast Passage on the ship "Maud", Amundsen began planning for an aerial expedition instead.
Based on his experiences from the first part of the "Maud expedition", Amundsen understood that the unexplored inner areas of the Arctic had to be explored from the air.
In 1926, he flew with Lincoln Ellsworth over the North Pole in the Italian-built airship "Norge" piloted by Umberto Nobile.
On 12.05.1926, Amundsen and 15 other men in the airship Norge became the first explorers verified to have reached the North Pole.
In 06/1928, Amundsen disappeared, while flying on a rescue mission, while searching for Nobile's failed expedition on the airship "Italia" in the Arctic.
The search for his remains, which have not been found, was called off in September of that year. Amundsen had died close to Bjørnøya.
The Stamps:
The Postage Stamps - one of INNLAND value and the other of 46 Kroner.
The first stamp shows Amundsen's profile facing left and an explorer (symbolising Amundsen) walking on ice, while the other shows an airship exploring the Arctic interiors.
The First Day Cover (FDC) is titled "01/2022 Roald Amundsen 150".
The image at left shows a Polar explorer walking towards an ice covered cliff, symbolising Amundsen's numerous polar expeditions.
At to right are affixed the two stamps issued in the set, cancelled with a special Cancellation Handstamp/Postmark of Oslo Post showing the conquest of the two poles by Amundsen by planting the Norwegian Flag on both the Poles. The Cancellation is dated - "05.01.2022".
A Collectible - showing an Airship exploring the Arctic interiors, with the explorers walking on ice.
The Collectible is serially numbered from 1 to 750.
The Two Maxi Cards issued in the set. A Maxi Card has all three elements - the photograph, the stamp and the cancellation on one face only.
Technical details:
Issue Date: 03.01.2022
Designer: Magnus Rakeng
Illustrator: Nasjonalmuseet / Commons
Printer: Joh. Enschedé Security Print
Process: Offset
Values: NOK 46.00
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