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The sled dogs were the heroic canine explorers who helped Roald Amundsen and the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition discover the South Pole. (Photographer, unidentified; owner, National Library of Norway)

About the Author

Mary R. Tahan is a writer, producer, and documentarian, with a professional background in journalism and marketing. She has authored scholarly articles and historical books and produced and directed documentary films. Her current lectures and presentations focus on Antarctica and the “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration” and cover many countries. As part of her research on Polar exploration, Mary R. Tahan traveled to Antarctica by invitation of the Dirección Nacional del Antártico (Instituto Antártico Argentino), where she was awarded an art residency to live and work on the Antarctic continent. There she performed on-site photography and videography of the Antarctic landscape, wildlife, animals, and historical sites, as well as conducted interviews with scientists and curators. Her research has also taken her to Argentina, Norway, France, Russia, the USA, Australia, Canada, and England, where she has also interviewed descendants of the early explorers of the Arctic and Antarctic.

Bibliography

Original Expedition Diaries of Roald Amundsen and Hjalmar Johansen, in the Manuscripts Collection, National Library of Norway (Nasjonalbiblioteket), Oslo

  1. Amundsen, R., Antarctic expedition diaries, 7 June 1910 through 6 March 1912, NB Ms.4° 1549, NB Ms.8° 1196, and NB Ms.8° 1249.
  2. Johansen, F. H., Antarctic expedition diaries, 15 August 1910 through 14 January 1912, NB Ms.4° 2775:C:2, NB Ms.4° 2775:C:3, NB Ms.4° 2775:C:4, NB Ms.4° 2775:C:5, and NB Ms.4° 2775:C:6.

Unpublished Sources on Roald Amundsen and the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1910–1912, in the Manuscripts Collection, National Library of Norway (Nasjonalbiblioteket), Oslo

  1. Amundsen Letters of Correspondence, written from Roald Amundsen to Leon Amundsen, Fridtjof Nansen, Axel Heiberg, Peter “Don Pedro” Christophersen, Hjalmar Johansen, and King Haakon VII of Norway.
  2. Amundsen Letters of Correspondence, written to Roald Amundsen from Leon Amundsen, Peter “Don Pedro” Christophersen, Jens Daugaard-Jensen, Thorvald Nilsen, Christian Doxrud, Carl Ryberg, and Robert Falcon Scott.
  3. Notations on Roald Amundsen’s first edition Sydpolen , Fritz G. Zapffe and Peter Wessel Zapffe.

Unpublished Sources on Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and the British Antarctic Expedition 1910–1913, in the RGS-IBG Archive Material Collections, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London

  1. Amundsen Letters of Correspondence: John Scott Keltie and Clements R. Markham.

Unpublished Sources on Roald Amundsen in the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver, B.C.

  1. Knud Rasmussen Personal Papers, Henry Larsen Collection, Leonard G. McCann Archives.

Unpublished and Published Sources at the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia

  1. Rix, C. E. (1978). Royal Zoological Society of South Australia 1878–1978 . Adelaide: Royal Zoological Society of South Australia Inc.
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Unpublished and Published Sources on Robert Falcon Scott and the British Antarctic Expedition 1910–1913, in the British Library, London

  1. Scott, R. F. (1911) 1968 The diaries of Captain Robert Scott: A record of the second Antarctic expedition 1910–1912 , Facsimile Edition. Tylers Green, Buckinghamshire: University Microfilms Ltd. BL MS Facsimile 777(1)–(6), Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London.
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Published Accounts and Autobiographies by Roald Amundsen

  1. Amundsen, R. (1907). To the North magnetic Pole and through the North-West Passage. The Geographical Journal , XXIX (5), May 1907, ed. Secretary J. Scott Keltie, 485–518. London: The Royal Geographical Society.
  2. Amundsen, R. (1912a). Sydpolen: den Norske Sydpolsfærd med Fram, 1910–1912, andet bind . Kristiania: Jacob Dybwads Forlag.
  3. Amundsen, R. (1912b). The South Pole: An account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the “Fram”, 1910–1912 (2 vols, A. G. Chater, Trans.). London: John Murray.
  4. Amundsen, R. (1927). 2008 My life as an explorer . Reprint, Amberley Publishing Plc, Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Published Diaries of Members of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1910–1912, from The Fram Museum (Frammuseet), Oslo

  1. Bjaaland, O. (G. O. Kløver, Ed.). (2011). Olav Bjaalands dagbøker: Sydpolsekspedisjonen 1910–12 [Olav Bjaaland’s diaries: The South Pole expedition 1910–12]. Oslo: The Fram Museum.
  2. Gjertsen, H. F. (G. O. Kløver, Ed.). (2011). Hjalmar Fredrik Gjertsens dagbøker: Sydpolsekspedisjonen 1910–1912 [Hjalmar Fredrik Gjertsen’s diaries: The South Pole expedition 1910–1912]. Oslo: The Fram Museum.
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  4. Hassel, S. (G. O. Kløver, Ed.). (2011). Sverre Hassels dagbøker: Sydpolsekspedisjonen 1910–1912 [Sverre Hassel’s diaries: The South Pole expedition 1910–1912]. Oslo: The Fram Museum.
  5. Kutschin, A. (G. O. Kløver, Ed.). (2011). Alexander Kutschins dagbok 1910–1911 [Alexander Kutschin’s Diary 1910–1911]. In Mannskapets dagbøker: Sydpolsekspedisjonen 1910–1914 [The Crew’s Diaries: The South Pole expedition 1910–1914]. Oslo: The Fram Museum.
  6. Nilsen, T. (G. O. Kløver, Ed.). (2011). Thorvald Nilsens dagbøker: Sydpolsekspedisjonen 1910–1914 [Thorvald Nilsen’s Diaries: The South Pole expedition 1910–1914]. Oslo: The Fram Museum.
  7. Prestrud, K. (G. O. Kløver, Ed.). (2011). Kristian Prestruds dagbøker: Sydpolsekspedisjonen 1910–1912 [Kristian Prestrud’s diaries: The South Pole expedition 1910–1912]. Oslo: The Fram Museum.
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  9. Stubberud, J. (G. O. Kløver, Ed.). (2011). Jørgen Stubberuds beretning 1910–1912 [Jørgen Stubberud’s Story 1910–1912]. In Mannskapets dagbøker: Sydpolsekspedisjonen 1910–1914 [The Crew’s diaries: The South Pole expedition 1910–1914]. Oslo: The Fram Museum.
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Published Accounts and Autobiographies by Members of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1910–1912

  1. Hanssen, H. (1936). Voyages of a modern Viking . London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
  2. Wisting, O. (1930). 16 År Med Roald Amundsen [16 years with Roald Amundsen]. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag.

Published Papers on the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition

  1. Earl Curzon of Kedleston. (1913, January). The Norwegian South Polar expedition: Discussion – Address by the Royal Geographical Society president, Lord Curzon, with Ernest Shackleton and W.S. Bruce. The Geographical Journal, XLI (1), 13–16. The Royal Geographical Society, Secretary and Editor of Publications J. Scott Keltie, LL.D., Edward Stanford, Ltd., London, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Collections, London.

Published Diaries, Accounts, and Newspaper from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–1914

  1. Madigan, C. T. (1913, August) 2010 “Our dogs” in The Adelie Blizzard, 1 (4), 143–147. Archie McLean (Ed.). In The Adelie Blizzard, Mawson’s forgotten newspaper, 1913 . Facsimile of original publication. Introduction by E. Leane and M. Pharaoh. Adelaide: The Friends of the State Library of South Australia in association with the Friends of Mawson at the South Australian Museum.
  2. Madigan, C. T. (J. W. Madigan, Ed.). (2012). Madigan’s account: The Mawson expedition: The Antarctic diaries of C. T. Madigan 1911–1914. Hobart: Wellington Bridge Press.
  3. Mawson, D. (1915) 1969 The home of the blizzard: Being the story of the Australasian Antarctic expedition, 1911–1914 , 2 vols. Reprint. New York: Greenwood Press, Publishers.
  4. Mawson, D. (F. Jacka & E. Jacka, Eds.). (1988) Mawson’s Antarctic diaries . London/Sydney/Wellington: Unwin Hyman.

Published Papers, Reports, and Books on Antarctic Expeditions

  1. Markham, A. H. (1896). Arctic exploration. In Report of the sixth international geographical congress, held in London, 1895 , eds. Secretaries of the Royal Geographical Society JS Keltie and H Mills, 177–201. London: John Murray/Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Collections.
  2. Markham, C. R. (1899a, November). The Antarctic expeditions. The Geographical Journal , XIV (5), 473–481. London: The Royal Geographical Society/Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Collections.
  3. Markham, C. R. (1899b). The Antarctic expeditions. In Verhandlungen des Siebenten Internationalen Geographen-Kongresses, Berlin, 1899 , (Vol. II, pp. 623–630). 1901. W. H. Kühl, Berlin (from New York Public Library, digitized by Google, at archive.​org , Accessed 30 Aug 2012).
  4. Nansen, F. (1899). Conference address. In Verhandlungen des Siebenten Internationalen Geographen-Kongresses, Berlin, 1899 , Erster Theil (Vol. I, pp. 67–77). 1901. W.H. Kühl, Berlin (from New York Public Library, digitized by Google, at archive.​org , Accessed 30 Aug 2012).
  5. Tahan, M. R. (2017) 2018 The life of José María Sobral: Scientist, diarist, and pioneer in Antarctica . Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  6. The Royal Geographical Society. (1899, November). The seventh international geographical congress. The Geographical Journal , XIV (5), 537–545. London: The Royal Geographical Society/Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Collections.

Photographs, Films, and Original Visual Sources

  1. Amundsen Photographs, Roald Amundsen archival photos, Picture Collection, National Library of Norway, Oslo.
  2. Amundsen, R., film footage. Roald Amundsen’s South Pole Expedition (1910–1912). Norwegian Film Institute (2010). Original film footage by Roald Amundsen and Kristian Prestrud, taken during the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1910–1912, restored and released on DVD. Restorers M. Skallerud, Laterna Magica et al., eds. J. Anders Diesen, I. Dokka, L. Gustavson, H. Østgaard Lund et al. Oslo: Norsk Filminstitutt.
  3. Hans Egede photographs, M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark, online photo archives, M/S Museet for Søfart, Elsinore. http://​billedarkiv.​mfs.​dk/​fotoweb/​

Historic Sites and Locations

  1. Amundsen’s Home “Uranienborg”, Roald Amundsen’s Home in Svartskog, Follo Museum, Norway.
  2. Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, art and research residency, Dirección Nacional del Antártico (National Directorate of the Antarctic).
  3. Fram Polar vessel, at the Fram Museum, Oslo, Norway.
  4. Original port and dock near La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  5. Oslo (Christiania) harbor.

Museums and Exhibitions

  1. Amundsen Exhibition, Polar Museum, Tromsø, Tromsø University Museum, Norway.

Newspaper Articles on the Norwegian and Australasian Expeditions

  1. Aftenposten (Oslo).
  2. The Daily Chronicle (London).
  3. The Mail (Adelaide, South Australia).
  4. The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania).
  5. The New York Times .
  6. The Register (Adelaide, South Australia: 1901–1929).

Published Visual Resources

  1. Lund, H. Ø. (2010). The South Pole photograph. In Roald Amundsen’s South Pole Expedition 1910–1912: on the expedition film and the iconic photograph. Booklet accompanying DVD of original film footage by Roald Amundsen and Kristian Prestrud, taken during the Norwegian Antarctic expedition, 1910–1912, restored and released by the Norwegian film institute. Editor Harald Østgaard Lund et al. Oslo: Norsk Filminstitutt.

Additional Background Reading

  1. Amundsen, R. (G. O. Kløver, Ed.). (2010). The Roald Amundsen diaries: The South Pole expedition 1910–1912 . Oslo: The Fram Museum.
  2. Johansen, H. (G. O. Kløver, Ed.). (2011). Hjalmar Johansens dagbøker: Sydpolsekspedisjonen 1910–12 [Hjalmar Johansen’s diaries: The South Pole expedition 1910–12]. Oslo: The Fram Museum.

Additional Research Institutions

  1. Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø.
  2. Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

Recommended Reading

  1. Amundsen, R. (1913, January). The Norwegian South Polar expedition. The Geographical Journal, XLI (1), 1–13. The Royal Geographical Society, Secretary and Editor of Publications J. Scott Keltie, LL.D., Edward Stanford, Ltd., London, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Collections, London.