Helland  Amund 
(11.10.1846–15.11.1918)

Norwegian geologist, politician, professor, specialist in the field of the mining industry, author of popular science works. 
Born in Bergen.

In 1864 he received the degree of candidate of medicine, in 1885 he was appointed an extraordinary professor.

At the beginning of his career, Helland made excursions in Greenland, Iceland and other European countries. He made a significant contribution to many areas of geology, his pioneering work on glacial erosion and the role of glaciers in the formation of valleys, fjords and lakes became classical.Helland also suggested that the sediments of the North European Plain and the shelf of the Norwegian Sea were formed due to the erosion of theScandinavian fjords. He is also known as the founder of the 20-volume publication Land of Norway and the People, published from 1885 to 1921.

Helland was one of the few who defended the Nansen project to cross Greenland on skis. After the article by Helland in one of the leading Norwegian newspapers, the government allocated Nansen the necessary five thousand kroons for the project, a huge sum for those times. 
Cape in the northwest of Jackson Island in the archipelago of Franz Josef Land. Opened and named by F. Nansen in 1895.