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Eivind Astrup

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Gender Male
Death129 years ago
Date of birth September 17,1871
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Oslo
Norway
DiedDovre Municipality
Norway
Parents Harald Astrup
Emilie Johanne Smith
Awards Murchison Award
Date of died December 27,1895
Burial placeVår Frelsers gravlund, Oslo
BooksBlandt Nordpolens Naboer
The Fram Expedition. Nansen in the Frozen World. Preceded by a Biography of the Great Explorer and Copious Extracts From Nansen's First Crossing of Greenland, Also an Account by Eivind Astrup, of Life Among People Near the Pole, and His Journey Across
With Peary Near the Pole. Translated by H. J. Bull. with Maps. - Scholar's Choice Edition
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Eivind Astrup Life story


Eivind Astrup was a Norwegian explorer and writer. Astrup participated in Robert Peary's expedition to Greenland in 1891–92 and mapped northern Greenland. In the follow-up Greenland expedition by Peary during 1893–94 he explored and mapped Melville Bay on the north-west coast of Greenland.

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