[DOC] [TLE] Northwest Passage - Wikipedia [PAR] The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and 
Pacific Oceans ... For centuries explorers sought a navigable passage as a 
possible trade ... When it became apparent that there was no route through the 
heart of the ... Roald Amundsen first successfully completed a passage from 
Greenland to... [DOC] [TLE] Nansen's Fram expedition - Wikipedia [PAR] Nansen's Fram expedition was an 18931896 attempt by the Norwegian explorer 
Fridtjof ... Through these years Nansen remembered the eastwest Arctic drift 
theory .... One applicant was the 20-year-old Roald Amundsen, future conqueror 
of the .... Nansen calculated that it might take the ship five years to reach the pole. [DOC] [TLE] Roald Amundsen - Wikipedia [PAR] Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar 
regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of 191012 which was the first to reach 
the .... Amundsen next planned to take an expedition to the North Pole and 
explore the Arctic Basin. ... Scott was planning his own expedition to the South 
Pole that year. [DOC] [TLE] Explorers of North America: EnchantedLearning.com [PAR] He was the first European colonizer of what is now South Carolina. ... Only 27 
years after being discovered, Steller's sea cows were hunted to ... to the Pacific 
through North America (a Northwest Passage) but did not find one. .... He was the 
first European to travel the length of the Mississippi River (1682). ...... K-3 Themes [DOC] [TLE] Roald Amundsen - EnchantedLearning.com [PAR] Roald Amundsen (July 16, 1872-June 22, 1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer 
... to fly over the North Pole in a dirigible (May 11-13, 1926) and was the first ... 
the world through the Northeast and Northwest passages, from the Atlantic to ... In 
1899, Amundsen became a sea captain himself and organized an ... K-3 Themes [DOC] [TLE] NOVA | Transcripts | Arctic Passage | PBS [PAR] Feb 28, 2006 ... The British believe that there is a shortcuta passage through ... But after 300 
years of trying to penetrate the Arctic ice, no ship has ever sailed all the way 
through. .... NARRATOR: The first hint that the Franklin expedition carried the ..... 
ROALD AMUNDSEN: "Strangely it was the suffering that Sir John and... [DOC] [TLE] Northwest Passage facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] Northwest Passage, water routes through the Arctic Archipelago, N Canada, ... 
north of Europe and Asiathe Northeast Passagealso became popular. ... 
Although the straits that form the passage have historically been ice-clogged year
-round, ... first accomplished (19036) by the Norwegian explorer Roald 
Amundsen. [DOC] [TLE] Roald Amundsen and the 1925 North Pole Expedition | HistoryNet [PAR] The 1925 expedition to fly over the North Pole was led by renowned ... In 
December 1911, Amundsen and his party became the first to trek to the South 
Pole ... A Norwegian ship preceded them and broke a passage through the ice 
for ... Amundsen, Ellsworth and the pilots believed that the flying boats were 
capable of taking... [DOC] [TLE] A History of the Northwest Passage - Boston Commons High Tech ... [PAR] Dec 23, 2015 ... [6] The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was the first to cross ... [3] Over the 
years, however, data gathered by explorers began to ... [11] Northwest Passage, 
a long-sought water route through or .... [19] David became the only American 
sailor in history to transit the infamous passage in both directions. [DOC] [TLE] VISIONS OF THE NORTH: Arctic Exploration [PAR] In the nineteenth century, the quest for a "Northwest Passage" became a ... More 
than three hundred years later, local Inuit told the explorer Charles ..... the first 
person to achieve the long-sought goal of sailing a ship through the ... Anxious to 
broadcast the news to the world, Amundsen was obliged to travel .... October (3). [DOC] [TLE] From Pytheas to CryoSat: a brief history of Europe's polar explorers ... [PAR] Another 4500-year-old carving on the island of Rodoy in Arctic Norway shows a 
... With it he was able to sail out of sight of land

Question: Taking 3 years, Roald Amundsen became the first to travel through this long-sought passage
Answer: Northwest Passage