Roald Amundsen

Despite his mother encouraging him to be a doctor, Roald Amundsen ended up becoming the first person to reach the South Pole. By sleeping with all his windows open in the winter months and visiting Norwegians who lived in the north of the country where he learned how to wear animal skins against the cold and use dogs to drag sledges across the snow.

He managed to beat an English explorer named Captain Scott with the help of four people, four sledges, fifty two dogs and lots of determination. He became famous thanks to this achievement.

The writer Roald Dahl, famous for "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Matilda" was named after this Norwegian hero.