100 years ago today, Roald Amundsen's flying boat took off. His team chopped a runway into the ice for weeks, moving at least 500 tons of frozen material in the process.

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100 years ago today, Roald Amundsen's flying boat took off. His team chopped a runway into the ice for weeks, moving at least 500 tons of frozen material in the process.

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Roald Amundsen and the 1925 North Pole Expedition

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To the six aviators stranded on the Arctic ice, the future looked bleak but not hopeless. Engine trouble had forced their pair of Dornier-Wal flying boats to put down on the shifting ice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen#Aerial_expeditions_to_the_North_Pole

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