Roald Amundsen

Roald Amundsen, born in 1872 near Oslo, Norway, left his mark on the Heroic Era as one of the most successful polar explorers ever born. He was 15 when he started exploring Antarctic with Adrian de Gerlache's, 1899 BELGICA Expedition. He became the first to travel the Northwest Passage.He started exploring Antarctic and the subsequent capture of the South Pole around 1903-1906.
On December 14, 1911, Amundsen and four others stood at the South Pole, a month before Robert Scott. This expedition was an incredible masterpiece of organization. In September of 1909 when the news reached Amundsen, he changed his original plan of traveling to the North Pole because he thought that the South Pole had more to research. So when he got down there he found Antarctica. He died in 1928.