For which feat of endurance is the Norwegian explorer, photographer, writer and former deep sea diver for the oil industry whose diving was mostly carried out in a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain and Scandinavia and whose name is Børge Ousland, best known?
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Børge Ousland Børge Ousland (born 31 May 1965) is a Norwegian polar explorer, photographer and writer. He started his career as a Norwegian Navy Special Forces Officer with Marinejegerkommandoen, and he also spent several years working as a deep sea diver for the oil industry in the North Sea. In 1994, he made the first solo and unsupported journey to the North Pole from cape Arktichevsky in Russia. As of 2016, that feat has never been successfully repeated. He made the first unassisted Antarctic solo crossing, between 15 November 1996 and 17 January 1997. The ski journey was made with kite assistance and also holds the record for the fastest unsupported journey to the South Pole taking just 34 days. On 22 January 2006, together with Mike Horn he began a journey to the North Pole in full Arctic night, successfully concluded on 23 March.
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North Sea The North Sea is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. An epeiric (or "shelf") sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north. It is more than 970 km long and 580 km wide, with an area of around 570000 km2 .
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William Parry (explorer) Rear Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, RN, FRS (19 December 1790 – 8 or 9 July 1855) was an English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer. His 1819 voyage through the Parry Channel was probably the most successful in the long quest for the Northwest Passage. In 1827 he attempted one of the earliest expeditions to the North Pole. He reached 82°45′ North latitude, setting the record for human exploration farthest North that stood for nearly five decades before being surpassed at 83°20′26″ by Albert Hastings Markham in 1875–1876.
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Graham Bell (skier) Graham Bell (born 4 January 1966) is a former Olympic skier who is also a TV presenter, adventurer and journalist. He has presented several BBC TV shows with Ed Leigh including "High Altitude" in 2009 and "Ski Sunday" more recently. Highlights included Graham tackling the Arctic Circle Race; a 160 mi cross-country skiing race in Greenland; and surviving a night in a snow-hole without food, water or a sleeping bag. He set a personal best top speed on skis of 121 mph .
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Great Orme The Great Orme (Welsh: "Y Gogarth" or "Pen y Gogarth" ) is a prominent limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, next to the town of Llandudno. It is referred to as "Cyngreawdr Fynydd" in a poem by the 12th-century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr. Its English name derives from the Viking (Old Norse) word for sea serpent, which it is said to resemble. The Great Orme was a major source of copper from the start of the British Islands' Bronze Age in approximately 2400BC. It is echoed by the Little Orme, a smaller very similar limestone headland on the eastern side of Llandudno Bay in the parish of Llanrhos.
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Low Island (South Shetland Islands) Low Island or "Isla Baja", historical names "Jameson Island" or "Jamesons Island" is an island 9 mi long and 5 mi wide, 14 mi southeast of Smith Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The island is located at and is separated from Smith Island by Osmar Strait. Low Island was so named because of its low elevation. Low Island was known to sealers in 1820, and the name Low Island has been established in international usage for 100 years.
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Shallow diving Shallow diving is an extreme sport, whereby enthusiasts attempt to dive from the greatest height into the shallowest depth of water, without sustaining injury. It is typically associated with travelling circuses along with the strongman, performing animals, clowns and other such attractions.
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Endurance (film) Endurance is a 1999 docudrama film about the famous distance runner Haile Gebrselassie with Gebrselassie playing the role of himself.
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Bjørn Ousland Bjørn Ousland (born May 14, 1959) is a Norwegian illustrator, children's writer and comics writer. His breakthrough was the album series "Solruns saga" from 1988 to 1993. Among his later albums are "Mumle Gåsegg" from 1999, "Soria Moria slott" from 2000, and "Grimsborken" from 2002, all adapted from Norwegian fairy tales. He was awarded the Brage Prize (open class) in 2007.
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Wilfred Thesiger Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), also called Mubarak bin London (Arabic for "the blessed one of London") was an English explorer and travel writer.
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Schiehallion oilfield The Schiehallion oilfield is a deepwater offshore oilfield approximately 175 km west of the Shetland Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Schiehallion and adjacent Loyal field were jointly developed by BP on behalf of the Schiehallion field partners; BP, Shell, Amerada Hess, Murphy Oil, Statoil and OMV, and the Loyal field partners; BP and Shell.
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Frederick George Jackson Frederick George Jackson (6 March 1860 – 13 March 1938) was an English Arctic explorer remembered for his expedition to Franz Josef Land, when he located the missing Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
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Ranvik Bay Ranvik Bay ( ) is an open bay 15 nautical miles (28 km) wide, lying southward of Rauer Islands in the southeast part of Prydz Bay. Discovered and charted in February 1935 by a Norwegian expedition led by Captain Klarius Mikkelsen in the Thorshavn. Named after the estate of Lars Christensen, sponsor of the expedition, situated at the head of Ranvik, a bay in Norway.
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James Holman James Holman FRS (15 October 1786 – 29 July 1857), known as the "Blind Traveller," was a British adventurer, author and social observer, best known for his writings on his extensive travels. Completely blind and suffering from debilitating pain and limited mobility, he undertook a series of solo journeys that were unprecedented both in their extent of geography and method of "human echolocation". In 1866, the journalist William Jerdan wrote that "From Marco Polo to Mungo Park, no three of the most famous travellers, grouped together, would exceed the extent and variety of countries traversed by our blind countryman." In 1832, Holman became the first blind person to circumnavigate the globe. He continued travelling, and by October 1846 had visited every inhabited continent.
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Bergen Line The Bergen Line or the Bergen Railway (Norwegian: Bergensbanen or Nynorsk: Bergensbana ), is a 371 km long scenic standard gauge railway line between Bergen and Hønefoss, Norway. The name is often applied for the entire route from Bergen via Drammen to Oslo, where the passenger trains go, a distance of 496 km . It is the highest mainline railway line in Northern Europe, crossing the Hardangervidda plateau at 1237 m above sea level.
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Hans Blohm Hans-Ludwig Blohm, C.M. (born November 12, 1927 in Rendsburg, Germany) is a photographer and author. Over three decades, he has criss-crossed the Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska, capturing images and stories of the Inuit. He has driven 16 times from his home in Ottawa to different parts of the North logging from 20 500 to 25 000 km each trip. He has driven the Mackenzie Ice Road to Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea at three occasions and has explored by sailboat the remote, uninhabited fjords of Labrador.
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Lofoten Lofoten (] ) is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Lofoten is known for a distinctive scenery with dramatic mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches and untouched lands. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude.
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Ormen Lange (gas field) Ormen Lange is a natural gas field on the Norwegian continental shelf. It is situated 120 km northwest of Kristiansund, where seabed depths vary between 800 and . The field is named after the famous longship "Ormen Lange" of Olaf Tryggvason, a 10th-century Viking king of Norway.
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Endurance (1912 ship) Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. She was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway and was crushed by ice, causing her to sink three years later in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.
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Edward Augustus Inglefield Admiral Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (27 March 1820 – 4 September 1894) was a Royal Naval officer who led one of the searches for the missing Arctic explorer John Franklin during the 1850s. In doing so, his expedition charted previously unexplored areas along the northern Canadian coastline, including Baffin Bay, Smith Sound and Lancaster Sound. He was also the inventor of the marine hydraulic steering gear and the anchor design that bears his name. The warship HMS "Inglefield" is named after him, as is the Inglefield Land region of Greenland and Inglefield Bay (Inglefieldbukta) on Spitsbergen, Norway.
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Barents Sea The Barents Sea (Norwegian: "Barentshavet" ; Russian: Баренцево море , "Barentsevo More") is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters. Known among Russians in the Middle Ages as the Murman Sea ("Norwegian Sea"), the sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz.
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Brage oil field Brage (Norwegian: "Bragefeltet" ) is an offshore oil field in the North Sea located 120 km northwest of the city of Bergen on the western coast of Norway and 13 km east of Oseberg Field Center. The field also contains gas. The water depth at the location is 140 m . The field was developed with a fixed integrated production, drilling and accommodation facility