Editing Roald Amundsen (section)

=== Aerial expeditions to the North Pole ===
[[File:Roald Amundsen Svalbard 1925.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Amundsen with his plane in [[Svalbard]] (1925)]]

The 1923 attempt to fly over the Pole failed. Amundsen and [[Oskar Omdal]], of the [[Royal Norwegian Navy]], tried to fly from [[Wainwright, Alaska]], to [[Spitsbergen]] across the North Pole. When their aircraft was damaged, they abandoned the journey. To raise additional funds, Amundsen travelled around the United States in 1924 on a lecture tour.

In 1925, accompanied by [[Lincoln Ellsworth]], pilot [[Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen]], flight mechanic [[Karl Feucht]] and two other team members (pilot [[Leif Dietrichson]] and mechanic Oskar Omdal),<ref name=AllSix/> Amundsen took two [[Dornier Do J]] [[flying boat]]s, the N-24 and N-25, to 87°&nbsp;44′&nbsp;north. It was the northernmost latitude reached by plane up to that time. The aircraft landed a few miles apart without radio contact, yet the crews managed to reunite. The N-24 was damaged. Amundsen and his crew worked for more than three weeks to clean up an airstrip to take off from ice.<ref name="historynet" /> They shovelled 600 tons of ice while consuming only {{convert|1|lb|g|spell=in}} of daily food rations. In the end, the six crew members were packed into the N-25. In a remarkable feat, Riiser-Larsen took off, the flying boat barely becoming airborne over the cracking ice. They returned triumphant when everyone thought they had been lost forever.<ref name=AllSix>"ALL SIX AMUNDSEN POLE FLYERS RETURN SAFELY— Anxiety Dispelled by Spitzbergen Word", ''The Indianapolis News'', 18 June 1925, p.1</ref>

In 1926, Amundsen and 15 other men (including Ellsworth, Riiser-Larsen, Oscar Wisting, and the Italian air crew led by aeronautical engineer [[Umberto Nobile]]) made the first crossing of the Arctic in the [[airship]] ''[[Norge (airship)|Norge]],'' designed by Nobile.<ref name="PBSorg" /> They left [[Spitsbergen]] on 11 May 1926, flew over the North Pole on 12 May,<ref name="dailytelegraph">{{cite web| title = South Pole conqueror Roald Amundsen won air race to the North Pole| author = Troy Lennon| publisher = The Daily Telegraph| url = https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/today-in-history/south-pole-conqueror-roald-amundsen-won-air-race-to-the-north-pole/news-story/37de4bb45a376ce3ff4c25c9d1b828ec| access-date = 22 November 2019| date = 12 May 2016| archive-date = 19 August 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200819063103/https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/today-in-history/south-pole-conqueror-roald-amundsen-won-air-race-to-the-north-pole/news-story/37de4bb45a376ce3ff4c25c9d1b828ec?nk=147d32152c356eb55e70be5a2bd5c81c-1597818663| url-status = live}}</ref> and landed in Alaska the following day.