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Polar conqueror lifted off

Sunday 24 April 1994 23:02 BST
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The Norwegian explorer Boerge Ousland, the forst person to reach the North Pole alone and unaided, has been air-lifted off the icecap to Canada, his spokesman said yesterday, Reuter reports from Oslo.

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