A bronze bust in Nome, Alaska, USA, honors Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who made the first flight over the North Pole between Europe and North America in an airship in 1926. The “Norge” began its historic 3,355-mile (5400-kilometer) flight in Norway and landed three days later nearby Nome in Teller, a Native Alaskan (Eskimo) village on the Bering Sea. Twenty years earlier in 1906 Amundsen arrived at Nome by sea as the first person to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage in the Arctic and sail above North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

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A bronze bust in Nome, Alaska, USA, honors Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who made the first flight over the North Pole between Europe and North America in an airship in 1926. The “Norge” began its historic 3,355-mile (5400-kilometer) flight in Norway and landed three days later nearby Nome in Teller, a Native Alaskan (Eskimo) village on the Bering Sea. Twenty years earlier in 1906 Amundsen arrived at Nome by sea as the first person to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage in the Arctic and sail above North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Many Nome visitors like to rub the prominent nose of the Amundsen head-and-shoulders statue for good luck.

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Size: 2550px × 3951px
Location: Nome, Alaska, USA
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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