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Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen

1890 - 1965

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Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen (7 June 1890 – 3 June 1965) was a Norwegian aviation pioneer, military officer, polar explorer and businessman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen has received more than 73,797 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen is the 389th most popular explorer (down from 308th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 74k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen ranks 389 out of 405Before him are Gennady Nevelskoy, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, Anthony de la Roché, Tobias Furneaux, Boris Vilkitsky, and Robert McClure. After him are Jacques Bernard Hombron, Ranulph Fiennes, Theodor von Heuglin, Hugh Clapperton, Henry Robertson Bowers, and Johannes Rebmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen ranks 177Before him are Paul Whiteman, Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov, Karl Patterson Schmidt, Hans Gál, Art Acord, and Stratis Myrivilis. After him are Rainer von Fieandt, Gopinath Bordoloi, Lauritz Melchior, Klabund, Robert Ripley, and Åge Lundström. Among people deceased in 1965, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen ranks 156Before him are Albert Gutterson, Emma Asson, Lars Hanson, Constance Bennett, Eric Backman, and Pietro Bianchi. After him are Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, Ethel Thomson Larcombe, František Langer, Vladimir Gardin, Edgar Barth, and Urho Castrén.

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