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- ↑ "Nansenprisen til ullsfjording". Bladet Tromsø (in Norwegian). 13 June 2008. p. 20.
- ↑ "Norske medlemmer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters . Retrieved 27 December 2021.
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