Where is Amundsen?
Norway renews the search for its polar hero Roald Amundsen. The plane with Amundsen is believed to have crash somewhere near the Bear Island in the Barents Sea 81 years ago.
The plane with Amundsen and his crew vanished somewhere in the Barents Sea on June 18, 1928. Amundsen took off from the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø on his way towards the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic. The mission was to locate and rescue the crew of Umberto Nobile who disappeared while attempting to fly over the North Pole with an airship in 1928.
Nobody knows where Amundsen’s plane crashed, but it was most likely some place north of the Bear Island in the Barents Sea.
The search for Roald Amundsen’s plane will be done with the Royal Norwegian Navy’s search- and rescue vessel “Tyr”. The vessel has special equipment for underwater search onboard, including a remote-controlled submarine, according to the web-site of the Norwegian Military.
Roald Amundsen and his men are best known for being the first on the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen discovered the North West Passage, finally completed in 1905 and he survived an attempt to fly to the North Pole in 1925.
