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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helge Ingstad has received more than 178,038 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Helge Ingstad is the 270th most popular explorer (down from 228th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Norway (down from 157th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Norwegian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Helge Ingstad ranks 270 out of 405Before him are Nikolai Spathari, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Aleksei Chirikov, Richard Chancellor, Juan Fernández, and Grigory Shelikhov. After him are Dmitry Laptev, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Ivan Papanin, Francis Crozier, Semyon Chelyuskin, and Alexander Dalrymple.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Helge Ingstad ranks 140Before him are Domingo Tejera, Sára Salkaházi, Norman Taurog, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Johan Grøttumsbråten, and Li Lisan. After him are Pierre Victor Auger, C. S. Forester, Nevil Shute, Ramon Novarro, Yury Olesha, and Aleksander Zawadzki. Among people deceased in 2001, Helge Ingstad ranks 122Before him are Henri Alekan, Ilie Verdeț, Leila Pahlavi, Aaliyah, Malcom McLean, and Grigory Chukhray. After him are John C. Lilly, Chuck Schuldiner, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Vasily Mishin, Berry Berenson, and R. K. Narayan.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Helge Ingstad ranks 173 out of 927Before him are Harriet Backer (1845), John Norum (1964), Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862), Colin Archer (1832), Eysteinn Erlendsson (1120), and Hjalmar Andersen (1923). After him are Henrik Steffens (1773), Amalie Skram (1846), Ole-Johan Dahl (1931), Edvard Moser (1962), Anathon Aall (1867), and Harald Sverdrup (1888).

Among EXPLORERS In Norway

Among explorers born in Norway, Helge Ingstad ranks 15Before him are Naddodd (900), Oscar Wisting (1871), Helmer Hanssen (1870), Ohthere of Hålogaland (900), Thorvald Asvaldsson (950), and Carl Anton Larsen (1860). After him are Jens Munk (1579), Knut Haugland (1917), Thekla Resvoll (1871), Sverre Hassel (1876), Kristian Prestrud (1881), and Grímur Kamban (801).