The Norwegian explorers even reached the east coast of what we now call Canada, where they set up a colony, but it only lasted a few years.

It is named after Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer.

A Norwegian explorer tried to claim some islands for Norway.

Oluf Christian Dietrichson (1856 - 1942) was a Norwegian explorer and military officer.

Both, however, are named after Norwegian polar explorer, Otto Sverdrup.

Norwegian explorer and physicist Kristian Birkeland may have been the first to predict that space is filled with plasma.

Along with illustrations of several of the grave goods, the Norwegian explorer described a looted shaft tomb he had visited in 1896.

When they finally reached their goal, they discovered that a Norwegian explorer named Amundsen had gotten there five weeks earlier.

A group of Norwegian explorers survived two winters on the island after their ship was crushed in the ice in 1859.

Stian Aker (born June 17, 1980) is a Norwegian polar explorer.