- Henry Rudi
Henry Rudi (1889-1970) was a Norwegian huntsman and polar bear hunter. His father had come from
Gudbrandsdal en, to settle inTroms . Rudi went on a total of 40 hunting trips to theArctic regions, and wintered there for 25 of them. The animals that was usually hunted in these regions includearctic fox ,walrus and seal, but Rudi is most known for having killed 713Polar Bear s through his years in the Arctic. Areas in which Henry Rudi spent several winters, includeSvalbard ,Jan Mayen andGreenland . The winter of 1947, was the last time Rudi went hunting in the Arctic.Life after the hunting
Henry Rudi grew up in the town of
Tromsø . This was also where he spent his last days. He was known for his cheerful personality and spent a lot of his retirement days in the [http://olhallen.custompublish.com Ølhallen] (The Beerhall) in Tromsø, where he gladly spoke to everybody who would listen about his adventures in the Arctic.Acknowledgements
* 1953 - Awarded with
HM The King's Medal of Merit
* 1969 - Honored by the sixth formers of Tromsø to be the Honorary Sixth Former of 1969
*He has also been honored with his own permanent exhibition in the [http://www.polarmuseum.no/en/ Polar Museum] in Tromsø, alongside great Arctic explorers such asRoald Amundsen andFridtjof Nansen .Bibliography
*Sørensen, Lars Normann 1958: Henry Rudi, Isbjørnkongen. Gyldendal, Oslo.
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