EXPLORER AT 70
(N Z Press Assn — rCopyripht) MONTREAL, July 16.
A Norwegian explorer, aged 70, has set out on his ninth expedition into the Canadian wildnerness.
Dr Helge Ingstad is going to Broughton Island, off the north-east tip of Baffin Island, to seek the origin of the Norse Helluland saga.
Norwegian scientists have long held that Helluland (meaning flat stone land) was the name given to an area near Massachusetts or Rhode Island first discovered by Norsemen more than 1000 years ago. Dr Ingstad believes the area to be much farther north.
Accompanied by two engineers. Mr Bjorn Johannessen and Mr Nicolay Eckhoff, and an eskimo guide, he will spend some months in remote areas of the north, trying to prove I his theory correct I The expedition is financed by the Norwegian Government
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32351, 17 July 1970, Page 4
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