Helge Ingstad
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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
Quarterboard in memory of Helge Ingstad, the governor (Sysselmann) of Erik the Red's Land in 1932–33. Antarctic Havn, Northeast Greenland
Bust of Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad outside the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo
Remains of Viking building at L'Anse aux Meadows
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Erik the Red's Land
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Erik the Red's Land was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse
Helge Ingstad
…Trapper Life") about his time in Canada, published in English as The Land of Feast and Famine (Knopf, 1933). Ingstad was the governor (Sysselmann) of Erik the Red's Land in 1932–1933, when Norway annexed that eastern part of Greenland. The Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague decided that the lands…
Raising of the Norwegian flag at Myggbukta, Eirik Raudes Land.