Monica Kristensen Solås

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Monica Kristensen (born June 30, 1950 in Torsby , Sweden ) is a Norwegian glaciologist , meteorologist and writer . As a polar explorer , she was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1989.

Life

Kristensen's mother is Swedish and her father is Norwegian. She spent her childhood in Kongsvinger . After studying physics at Tromsø University , she received her doctorate in Cambridge in 1983 . Since 1980 she has participated in several British and Norwegian expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic . After Gro Harlem Brundtland , she was awarded the Årets budeie Prize for independence and ability in 1990.

In 1986/87 Kristensen was the first woman to lead an Antarctic expedition. 75 years after Roald Amundsen , she wanted to follow his path to the South Pole . She was accompanied by the British glaciologist Neil McIntyre , the Danish dog sled drivers Jesper Andersen and Jacob Larsen, and 22 sled dogs . Provisions were brought to the route from New Zealand by plane. The team had to turn back on January 21, 400 kilometers from the pole at almost 86 ° South, in order to reach their expedition ship, the Aurora , in time on February 28.

In 1991/92 she led the construction of Camp Blåenga in Coatsland , which served as a base camp for a three-year climatological research program on the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf . In February 1992 she visited the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and looked for Amundsen's tent, which was suspected to be under a 15-meter-thick layer of snow. This should be exhibited at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . At the end of December 1993, Kristensen led a private expedition with snowmobiles , which was financed by Statoil and the Organizing Committee of the Winter Games , among others . The aim was again to search for Amundsen's tent. The expedition ended tragically, because Jostein Helgestad (1957-1994) fell into a crevasse and died. The three survivors were flown to McMurdo Station by an American Search and Rescue team .

She later worked in Northern Norway and on Svalbard , including from 1998 to 2003 as CEO of Kings Bay AS . In 2004 and 2005 she was general secretary of the Redningsselskapet sea ​​rescue organization .

According to non-fiction books and expedition reports, Kristensen has been writing detective novels since 2007. Her books have been translated into several languages.

Works

Non-fiction

  • Det magiske lands: fortellinger om Svalbard . Oslo 1989.
  • Mot 90 ° syd . Oslo 1987. ISBN 978-82-504-0891-3 .
  • Dager i Antarctica: om folk og forskning - og en ekspedisjon suffered utenom det vanlige . Oslo 1993.
  • Kings Bay saken . 2012.
  • Amundsen's siste journey . 2017 (German edition: Amundsen's last trip . Btb Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-75782-4 ).

Detective novels

  • Hollendergraven . Oslo 2007.
  • Kullunge . 2008. (search)
  • Operasjon Fritham . 2009.
  • Den døde i Barentsburg . 2011. (Some nights)
  • Ekspedisjonen . 2014.

Detective novels published in Germany

literature

  • John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Volume 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 879 (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Volume 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 879 (English)
  2. ^ Beau Riffenburgh: Encyclopedia of the Antarctic. Taylor & Francis 2007. ISBN 978-0-415-97024-2 . P. 1095 (English)
  3. ↑ Private Norwegian expedition ends in tragedy: USAP dispatches SAR team to retrieve party of four (SAR report in the Antarctic Journal June 1994, English)
  4. ↑ Translated by Christel Hildebrandt .
  5. ^ Translated by Ulrich Sonnenberg .
personal data
SURNAME Kristensen Solås, Monica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kristensen, Monica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian polar explorer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Torsby