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Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer. He was born in 1872 and died in 1928. He was the first person to sail through the North-West Passage and in 1911 beat Scott to be the first person to reach the south pole.
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott was an English explorer. He was born in 1868 near Devonport, Devon and died in 1912. He commanded the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901 to 1904 which explored the Ross Sea and discovered King Edward VII land. Later he was beaten to the South Pole by Roald Amundsen and died on the return journey as a result of poor weather and disease.
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