Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen7 June 1910
Sails from Norway in Fram while still publicly presenting the voyage as an Arctic expedition
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Sails from Norway in Fram while still publicly presenting the voyage as an Arctic expedition
Reveals to his crew that the Fram expedition is bound for Antarctica and not the Arctic Ocean
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