Helge Ingstad | |
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.gif) Ingstad in his trapper days in the late 1920s (photo taken in 1932 from his book about Canada The Land of Feast and Famine, 1933) | |
| 2nd Governor of Svalbard Acting | |
| In office 28 July 1933 – 1 September 1935 | |
| Monarch | Haakon VII |
| Prime Minister | Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Johan Nygaardsvold |
| Preceded by | Johannes Gerckens Bassøe |
| Succeeded by | Wolmar Tycho Marlow |
| Governor of Erik the Red's Land | |
| In office 1932–1933 | |
| Monarch | Haakon VII |
| Prime Minister | Peder Kolstad Jens Hundseid Johan Ludwig Mowinckel |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 December 1899 Meråker, Norway |
| Died | 29 March 2001 (aged 101) Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway |
| Spouse | Anne Stine Ingstad |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo Faculty of Law |
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Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001)[1] 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.[2][3] 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.[4]
Helge Ingstad died at Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo at the age of 101.[5]
- ^ "Helge Marcus Ingstad". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
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- ^ Douglas Martin (March 30, 2001). "Helge Ingstad, Discoverer of Viking Site, Is Dead at 101". The New York Times. Retrieved January 1, 2017.