{"id":1,"date":"2026-05-29T09:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-09-27T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:14:37","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Lassesen Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Named after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangeographic.com.au\/news\/2017\/08\/antarctic-landmarks-to-be-named-after-courageous-snow-dogs\/\">Lassesen<\/a> that went with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen to the South Pole in 1911. He later went with \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangeographic.com.au\/blogs\/on-this-day\/2011\/12\/on-this-day-mawson-sets-sail-for-antarctica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sir Douglas Mawson<\/a>\u00a0on his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangeographic.com.au\/topics\/history-culture\/2011\/12\/survival-in-antarctica-longest-solo-feat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early exploration<\/a>\u00a0of the icy continent. By chance, Ken Lassesen worked with Amundsen nephew in the 1970&#8217;s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" src=\"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1024x602.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1024x602.png 1024w, http:\/\/lassesen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-300x177.png 300w, http:\/\/lassesen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-768x452.png 768w, http:\/\/lassesen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1536x904.png 1536w, http:\/\/lassesen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">66\u00b0\u00a057&#8242;\u00a048.3&#8243;\u00a0S<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">142\u00b0&nbsp;38&#8242;&nbsp;41.7&#8243;&nbsp;E<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"361\" height=\"429\" src=\"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1.png 361w, http:\/\/lassesen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-1-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Named after the Lassesen that went with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen to the South Pole in 1911. He later went with \u00a0Sir Douglas Mawson\u00a0on his\u00a0early exploration\u00a0of the icy continent. By chance, Ken Lassesen worked with Amundsen nephew in the 1970&#8217;s Location 66\u00b0\u00a057&#8242;\u00a048.3&#8243;\u00a0S 142\u00b0&nbsp;38&#8242;&nbsp;41.7&#8243;&nbsp;E<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lassesen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}