Roald Amundsen was born in 1872 in Borge, a village situated between Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg, in southeast Norway. Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, the first to reach the South Pole, a navigator of the Northeast Passage, the first to fly to latitude 88⁰ N, and the first to fly across the Arctic Ocean.