List of things named after Roald Amundsen



Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer who made a number of notable achievements during his lifetime, including leading the first expedition to the South Pole in 1911.

In recognition of Amundsen's accomplishments, a number of places in the Arctic and Antarctic have been named after him, as well as numerous entities in other fields.

Antarctic

 * Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, jointly named with his rival Robert Falcon Scott
 * Amundsen Sea, arm of the Southern Ocean
 * Amundsen Plain, abyssal plain in the Southern Ocean
 * Amundsen Bay
 * Amundsen Coast
 * Amundsen Glacier
 * Amundsen Icefall
 * Mount Amundsen

Arctic

 * Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower, research tower in Svalbard, jointly named with Umberto Nobile
 * Amundsen Basin, abyssal plain in the Arctic Ocean
 * Amundsen Gulf, arm of the Arctic Ocean
 * Amundsen Land, Greenland
 * Roaldryggen, mountain ridge in Svalbard

Elsewhere

 * Amundsen Circle, in Staten Island, New York
 * Amundsena Street, in Moscow, Russia

Extraterrestrial

 * Amundsen, crater near the Moon's south pole
 * 1065 Amundsenia, asteroid

Ships

 * HNoMS Roald Amundsen, frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy
 * CCGS Amundsen, icebreaker and Arctic research vessel of the Canadian Coast Guard
 * MS Roald Amundsen, Norwegian cruise ship
 * Roald Amundsen, German brig

People

 * Roald Dahl, British author
 * Roald Hoffmann, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
 * Roald Sagdeev, Russian physicist

Other

 * Roald Amundsen (PH-BTE), Boeing 737 of KLM
 * Roald Amundsen (LN-LNE), Boeing 787 of Norwegian Long Haul
 * Roald Amundsen, a private railway car built by the Pullman Company
 * Amundsen, one of two probes on the Deep Space 2 mission
 * Amundsen High School, in Chicago, Illinois
 * Amundsen, 2019 biographical film about Amundsen's life
 * Amundsenia which is a genus of saxicolous lichens in the family Teloschistaceae