Eastern Norway Viken NORDRE FOLLO

Roald Amundsen´s home Uranienborg

Roald Amundsensvei 192, Nordre Follo
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The Polar explorers house as he left it in 1928.

For 20 years, Roald Amundsen lived in his house Uranienborg at Svartskog. When he disappeared in 1928, Uranienborg was left full of stories from the life he had lived and the people around him, including the secrets he had tried to keep to himself.

Roald Amundsen bought the house in 1908, and lived here until he stepped outside for the last time on June 16, 1928. He disappeared a few days later while trying to search for a missing Italian airship expedition.

Amundsen’s polar expeditions were costly and he eventually ran into money problems. In 1924, he went bankrupt, but two of his financial supporters, Herman Gade and Don Pedro Christophersen, bought Uranienborg and let Amundsen stay. After Amundsen’s death, they gave the property to the Norwegian state in 1933, and since 1934 Uranienborg has been a museum.

His home has been kept just as it was when he left for his final expedition. In 1911 Amundsen and his men skied to the South Pole as the first to reach the pole point.

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