AMUNDSEN’S MEMORY
NORWEGIAN HOMAGE (United Service.) Oslo, December 14. Homage was paid to-day to the memory of Captain Roald Amundsen, on the seventeenth anniversary of the discovery of the South Pole. All traffic was stopped for two minutes at Oslo and Copenhagen. The King, the Crown Prince, and Amundsen’s family were among the gathering at Oslo, while at Copenhagen the gathring was addressed by the Crown Prince of Denmark, who declared that the northern light was writing Amundsen’s name in flames on the horizon.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 71, 17 December 1928, Page 10
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84AMUNDSEN’S MEMORY Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 71, 17 December 1928, Page 10
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