Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (born 16 July 1872 and probably died 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer born 153 years ago. Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (born 16 July 1872 and probably died 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer. The expedition he led between 1911 and 1912 was the first to reach the Antarctic. They arrived at the South Pole on 14 December 1911 and the news was only spread on 7 March 1212. Their expedition was led by the Englishman Robert Feynman Scott a month earlier. In 1928, an ¡°Italian¡± aircraft was in extreme distress in the north, and the aircraft went to his rescue camp until now. He has not been found at the extreme South Pole. The South Pole explorer has been rated as the greatest of the South Pole.