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Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer, lawyer, and politician, 2nd Governor of Svalbard (died 2001)
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Helge Ingstad
Norwegian explorer (1899–2001)
Helge Marcus Ingstad 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Governor of Svalbard
Highest representative of the Norwegian government in Svalbard
The governor of Svalbard represents the Norwegian government in exercising its sovereignty over the Svalbard archipelago (Spitsbergen).Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)