Roald Amundsen Author:Cateau Deleeuw With a grin Amundsen went and lifted out the Norwegian flag. "Come," he said to his friends, "we must pet it up together." — It was December 11, 1911. The little group of explorers was the first to reach the South Pole. It was a great and solemn moment. Yet Amundsen gave a sigh. All his life, from childhood on, he had wanted t... more »o travel to the North Pole. Peary had beaten him there. So here he was instead, at the other end of the world.« less