During a trip to Geneva earlier this year, I was impressed to find that many of the streets which bear the names of famous or important people, have a brief explanation under the street name sign of who the person was or mentioned some notable achievement of theirs. But in Oslo, no such introduction was required: Norway seems to have had an abundance of over-achievers of the last couple of centuries and most of them have earned themselves an eternal commemoration on the map. For me, a couple of those names stand out in particular: Roald Amundsen, Fridtjof Nansen and Thor Heyerdahl. Of course ...
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