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Bronze plaque № 51546

San Francisco, CA, United States

Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian polar explorer, was the first to locate the magnetic North Pole and to navigate the Northwest Passage, the Arctic water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He left Norway with a crew of six on June 16 of 1903 in a 69-foot long covered herring boat named Gjoa. Amunds

en spent three years on the perilous journey. The Gjoa continued on, sailing through the Bering Straits and anchored off Point Bonita, outside the Golden Gate on October 19, 1906. The San Francisco No

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