Sigurd Helle, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sigurd Helle

Norwegian topographer

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1920

Date of Death: 21-Apr-2013

Profession: explorer

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Sigurd Helle

  • Sigurd Gunnarson Helle (6 September 1920 – 21 April 2013) was a Norwegian topographer and explorer. He was born in Hylestad.
  • He graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.mag.
  • degree in 1948.
  • He was a research assistant for Carl Størmer, and was hired as a geodesist at the Norwegian Polar Institute in 1949.
  • He did field work at Jan Mayen and Svalbard, but is best known for leading the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition to Queen Maud Land in 1956–1960.
  • He retired in 1987.The Helle Slope and the Sigurd Knolls in Antarctica are named for him.
  • Hellefonna, a glaciated area in Sabine Land at Spitsbergen, is also named after Helle.

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