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Vilhjalmur Stefansson

1879 - 1962

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson (November 3, 1879 – August 26, 1962) was an Arctic explorer and ethnologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilhjalmur Stefansson has received more than 391,733 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Vilhjalmur Stefansson is the 323rd most popular explorer (up from 381st in 2019), the 254th most popular biography from Canada (up from 420th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Explorer.

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  • 390k

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Vilhjalmur Stefansson ranks 323 out of 405. Before him are Pyotr Kozlov, Grímur Kamban, Eudoxus of Cyzicus, Félix de Azara, Olav Bjaaland, and Pyotr Beketov. After him are Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Stepan Krasheninnikov, Charles Francis Hall, Francisco de Ulloa, and John Biscoe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Vilhjalmur Stefansson ranks 135. Before him are Grace Coolidge, Helena Roerich, Ernst Herzfeld, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Petros Persakis, and Ruth St. Denis. After him are Martin Mutschmann, Eugène Lanti, Shinobu Ishihara, Cyril Scott, Wladimir Aïtoff, and Will Rogers. Among people deceased in 1962, Vilhjalmur Stefansson ranks 116. Before him are Sylvia Beach, Luigi Carnera, Ossip Bernstein, Gary Hocking, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, and A. K. Fazlul Huq. After him are Paavo Aaltonen, Paul Götz, Forrest Smithson, Richard Herrmann, Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Florence Lee.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Vilhjalmur Stefansson ranks 254 out of 1,350. Before him are Natasha Henstridge (1974), Harold Russell (1914), Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923), Elias Koteas (1961), Lance Kinsey (1954), and John Diefenbaker (1895). After him are Stephen McHattie (1946), Viola Desmond (1914), Stana Katic (1978), Michael Ontkean (1946), James LaBrie (1963), and Colleen Dewhurst (1924).

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Among EXPLORERS In Canada

Among explorers born in Canada, Vilhjalmur Stefansson ranks 3. Before him are Joshua Slocum (1844) and Louis Jolliet (1645). After him are Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661), Edward Belcher (1799), and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680).

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