# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olav-bjaaland
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:04:39.829Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olav-bjaaland"
name: "Olav Bjaaland"
slug: "olav-bjaaland"
description: "Olav Bjaaland was a Norwegian ski champion and polar explorer. In 1911, he was one of the first five men to reach the South Pole as part of Amundsen's South Pole expedition."
tagline: "Norwegian skier and Antarctica explorer (1873-1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Olav_Bjaaland.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NO"
birthDate: "1873-03-05"
deathDate: "1961-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump