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Place of Birth: Tromsø municipality, Northern Norway, Norway
About Henry Rudi
- Henry Marentius Rudi (12 March 1889 – 15 June 1970) was a Norwegian trapper and polar bear hunter.
- Rudi was born in Tromsø, Norway, the son of Ole Olsen Rudi (1859–1935) and Marie Wilhelmine Henriksen (1863–1934).
- His father had originally moved from Gudbrandsdalen.
- He started his career as a shopkeeper in Tromsø, but life behind the counter became monotonous.
- At 19, he spent the winter at Hopen in Svalbard (1908-09).
- He later went to the island of Jan Mayen and various fishing grounds in Svalbard.
- He also spent several winters in Greenland, first in Northeast Greenland (1928–30), at Southeast Greenland (1931–33) and at Northeast Greenland again (1939–42).
- During World War II, he belonged to a sled patrol under Danish command that patrolled the Greenland coastlines on the lookout for German soldiers (1942–45).
- In total, he went on 40 hunting trips to the Arctic regions, and wintered there for 25 of them.
- The animals that were usually hunted in these regions included Arctic fox, walrus and seal, but Rudi is best known for having killed a total of 713 polar bears.
- The winter of 1947 was his last time hunting in the Arctic.Rudi spent his last days in the town of Tromsø.
- He was known for his cheerful personality and spent a lot of his retirement days in the Ølhallen pub in Tromsø, where he gladly spoke to everybody who would listen about his adventures in the Arctic.
- In 1953, he was awarded with the King's Medal of Merit (Kongens fortjenstmedalje).
- He has also been honored with his own permanent exhibition in the Polar Museum (Polarmuseet) at Tromsø alongside other Arctic explorers, including Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen.
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