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Helge Ingstad

1899 - 2001

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Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Norse Settlements in the 14th and 15th centuries could be explained by their emigration to North America. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helge Ingstad is the 238th most popular explorer (up from 319th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Norway (up from 223rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Norwegian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Helge Ingstad ranks 238 out of 498. Before him are Naddodd, Lourenço Marques, Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Carl Anton Larsen, André Thevet, and Lincoln Ellsworth. After him are Ma Huan, Olivier van Noort, Jimmie Angel, Louise Arner Boyd, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, and Vladimir Atlasov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Helge Ingstad ranks 123. Before him are Noël Coward, Oscar Zariski, Norman Taurog, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Café Filho, and Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski. After him are Max Simon, Jimmie Angel, Maria Yudina, Domingo Tejera, Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, and Joseph Guillemot. Among people deceased in 2001, Helge Ingstad ranks 99. Before him are Tommy Flanagan, Chet Atkins, Indro Montanelli, Rehavam Ze'evi, Kristina Söderbaum, and Ilie Verdeț. After him are Katharine Graham, Mauro Bolognini, Hilde Holger, Ninette de Valois, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Isao Inokuma.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Helge Ingstad ranks 165 out of 1,039. Before him are Otto Ruge (1882), Anne Holt (1958), Naddodd (900), Magnus Carlsen (1990), Frits Thaulow (1847), and Carl Anton Larsen (1860). After him are Oda Krohg (1860), Lars Saabye Christensen (1953), Wollert Konow (1845), Petter Dass (1647), Jan P. Syse (1930), and Euronymous (1968).

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Among EXPLORERS In Norway

Among explorers born in Norway, Helge Ingstad ranks 11. Before him are Ingólfr Arnarson (850), Otto Sverdrup (1854), Carsten Borchgrevink (1864), Ohthere of Hålogaland (900), Naddodd (900), and Carl Anton Larsen (1860). After him are Thekla Resvoll (1871), Oscar Wisting (1871), Hjalmar Johansen (1867), Jens Munk (1579), Helmer Hanssen (1870), and Thorvald Asvaldsson (950).

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