Ole Jørgen Hammeken (born 1956) is a Greenlandic explorer and actor based in Denmark and Russia. He was born in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, and was the son of Maritha and Motzflot Hammeken.

Career

Polar exploration

He participated in 2007 in the 'Global Warming Dogsled Expedition' – a journey of over up and over the

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from

Uummannaq Fjord Uummannaq Fjord is a large fjord system in the northern part of western Greenland, the largest after Scoresby Sund, Kangertittivaq fjord in eastern Greenland. It has a roughly south-east to west-north-west orientation, emptying into the Baffin ...

to Ilulissat, intended to draw people's attention to

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and

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. In 2008, Hammeken completed a circumpolar voyage in a motorized open boat. In February 2009, Hammeken planned a centennial

dog sled A dog sled or dog sleigh is a sled pulled by one or more sled dogs used to travel over ice and through snow, a practice known as mushing. Numerous types of sleds are used, depending on their function. They can be used for Sled dog racing, dog sl ...

trip from northern

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to the

North Pole The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's rotation, Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distingu ...

, 771 km (480 mi), one-way, minimum distance, retracing the footsteps of

Robert Peary Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long credited as being ...

. He is a member of

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Acting

In 2009 Hammeken played the lead role of Ikuma in Le Voyage D'Inuk, a French-Greenlandic film in the

Greenlandic language Greenlandic, also known by its Endonym and exonym, endonym Kalaallisut (, ), is an Inuit languages, Inuit language belonging to the Eskaleut languages#Internal classification, Eskimoan branch of the Eskaleut languages, Eskaleut language family. ...

. The film premiered on 20 April 2010 in

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Personal life

In 1993 Hammeken returned from

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

, having abandoned a judicial career, deciding to settle in Uummannaq. January 2013 Hammeken moved from Uummannaq. Hammeken is an advocate of traditional Greenlandic arts, preservation of dogsledding and historical hunting techniques. He has a daughter named Alexandra Pipaluk Hammeken born in 1993.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hammeken, Ole Jorgen 21st-century Danish male actors 21st-century Danish sportsmen 21st-century Greenlandic people 21st-century Inuit people Greenlandic Inuit people Greenlandic male actors Greenlandic polar explorers Inuit male actors People from Nuuk People from Uummannaq Living people 1956 births Greenlandic sportsmen 20th-century Danish sportsmen