Dwapara Yuga Explorer Roald Amundsen

Although best known for beating the British to the South Pole, the Norwegian Amundsen's first expedition and scientific exploration was in 1905 when he successfully navigated the North West Passage across the top of Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific and determined the then location of Magnetic North.

It was not just the breaking down of barriers and determining finer forces at the dawn of Dwapara Yuga that make Amundsen a Dwapara Yuga explorer but the mindset with which he did it.

From Columbus on, European explorers had tried to find the Northwest Passage and failed. A mindset of themselves against nature and a condescending attitude to the Inuit natives had characterized their failures, particularly in the Victorian era - often leading to agonizing deaths on the supposedly barren snowscapes.

In sharp contrast, Amundsen perceived that a small team with a small boat working in harmony with nature, befriending and learning from the Inuit, training professionally and learning systematically from all previous attempts could prevail. He would return to an independent Norway, which had just thrown off Swedish control and go on to prove the same Dwapara principles in beating the then might of the British Empire in its South Pole Expedition.