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Category: Geology stubs Roald Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872â€“June 18?, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. ... Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868â€“29 March 1912) was a Royal Naval officer and Antarctic explorer. ... Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 â€“ February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who is usually credited as the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole. ... Fridtjof Nansen Fridtjof Nansen (born October 10, 1861 in Store FrÃ¸en, near Kristiania, now Oslo - died May 13, 1930 in Lysaker, outside Oslo) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. ...

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	By the close of the 20th century, virtually all of the Earth's surface had been explored, and attention was largely directed toward its subsurface regions and its oceans, particularly the deep ocean floor.
	The exploration of the polar regions was the work of the first half of the 20th century.

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