Roald Amundsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's
Northwest Passage between the
Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. He planned a small expedition of six men in a 45-ton fishing vessel,
Gjøa, in order to have flexibility. His ship had relatively shallow draft. His technique was to use a small ship and hug the coast. Amundsen had the ship outfitted with a small gasoline engine.
[7] They traveled via
Baffin Bay, the
Parry Channel and then south through
Peel Sound,
James Ross Strait,
Simpson Strait and
Rae Strait. They spent two winters (1903–04 and 1904–05) at
King William Island in the harbor of what is today
Gjoa Haven,
Nunavut, Canada.
[6][7] During this time, Amundsen and the crew learned from the local
Netsilik Inuit people about
Arctic survival skills, which he found invaluable in his later expedition to the South Pole. For example, he learned to use
sled dogs for transportation of goods and to wear animal skins in lieu of heavy, woolen parkas, which could not deter cold when wet.
Leaving Gjoa Haven, he sailed west and passed
Cambridge Bay, which had been reached from the west by
Richard Collinson in 1852. Continuing to the south of
Victoria Island, the ship cleared the
Canadian Arctic Archipelago on 17 August 1905. It had to stop for the winter before going on to
Nome on the
Alaska District's Pacific coast. Five hundred miles (800 km) away,
Eagle City, Alaska, had a
telegraphstation; Amundsen traveled there (and back) overland to wire a success message (
collect) on 5 December 1905. His team reached Nome in 1906.
Because the water along the route was sometimes as shallow as 3 ft (0.91 m), a larger ship could not have made the voyage.
Mr. Westwall, it took Amundsen three years in a very small boat. Since 2007 there have been several large passenger ships that have transited the passage. Your line of arguement is not only stupid, it is also very silly.
You have shown repeatedly that you have no regard for truth.