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Hjalmar Johansen

1867 - 1913

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Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen (15 May 1867 – 3 January 1913) was a Norwegian polar explorer. He participated on the first and third Fram expeditions. He shipped out with the Fridtjof Nansen expedition in 1893–1896, and accompanied Nansen to notch a new Farthest North record near the North Pole. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hjalmar Johansen has received more than 143,935 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Hjalmar Johansen is the 255th most popular explorer (down from 181st in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from Norway (down from 105th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Norwegian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Hjalmar Johansen ranks 255 out of 498. Before him are Pero Escobar, Ingvar the Far-Travelled, Thorvald Eiriksson, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Snorri Thorfinnsson, and Carl Anton Larsen. After him are William Smith, Pierre Poivre, Jens Munk, Carl Peters, Oscar Wisting, and Francis Garnier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Hjalmar Johansen ranks 85. Before him are Alexander Vasiliev, Amy Beach, Dimitrios Gounaris, Hanns Hörbiger, Martin Kutta, and Nilo Peçanha. After him are Léon Daudet, Alfred Kerr, Giuseppe Morello, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, William Speirs Bruce, and Prince Henri of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1913, Hjalmar Johansen ranks 47. Before him are Camille Jenatzy, Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Okakura Kakuzō, Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani. After him are Seth Carlo Chandler, Kâmil Pasha, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Nazım Pasha, Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay, and Karl Wittgenstein.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Hjalmar Johansen ranks 171 out of 1,039. Before him are Anja Breien (1940), Petter Dass (1647), Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818), Carl Anton Larsen (1860), Gunnar Staalesen (1947), and Edvard Moser (1962). After him are Berit Mørdre (1940), Ole Ellefsæter (1939), Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899), Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847), Ole-Johan Dahl (1931), and Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862).

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Among EXPLORERS In Norway

Among explorers born in Norway, Hjalmar Johansen ranks 12. Before him are Otto Sverdrup (1854), Naddodd (900), Thekla Resvoll (1871), Carsten Borchgrevink (1864), Ohthere of Hålogaland (900), and Carl Anton Larsen (1860). After him are Jens Munk (1579), Oscar Wisting (1871), Helmer Hanssen (1870), Helge Ingstad (1899), Thorvald Asvaldsson (950), and Grímur Kamban (801).

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