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Rolf Kiær

Norwegian civil servant and hydrographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 7, 2022
Entity authorityQ7360751 ↗
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Rolf Kiær (17 June 1897 – 1975) is a Norwegian hydrographer.

He was born in Trondhjem. He was hired in the Norwegian Hydrographic Service in 1920, and in Norges Svalbard- og Ishavsundersøkelser in 1929. Here, he took part in expeditions to Svalbard and Eastern Greenland. From 1936 to 1967 he was the director of the Norwegian Hydrographic Service.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1897, 1975, 1920, 1929—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1897, 1897-06-19—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Rolf, Kiær and Norwegian can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 7, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q7360751. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1897, 1975, 1920 and 1929.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rolf Kiær” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.