Hendriksen  Peder Léonard 
(1859–?)

Norwegian sailor, skipper, harpooner. 
Born in Balfjord near Tromsø. From childhood, he was accustomed to sea by his parents, from the age of fourteen he had already gone to the Arctic Ocean on fishing vessels by a harpooner and skipper. 
In 1888, Hendriksen sailed to Novaya Zemlya on the yacht Enigeden from Christiansand. 
In the life of a simple sailor Hendriksen, two events occurred that inscribed his name in the history of the geographical development of the Arctic. In 1893–1896 as a harpooner, he took part in the outstanding expedition of F. Nansen on the "Fram", and in 1898-1902  also on the "Fram", but already in the American Arctic and under the direction of O. Sverdrup. 
He ended his career as an employee of the lighthouse on the island of Andoya (or Andenes) Vesterålen archipelago. According to many sources buried in the church cemetery of this island. 
Island east of the Mackenzie Delta in the Beaufort Sea.

Strait between the islands of Amund Ringnes and Cornwall in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Opened and named in 1901 by members of the expedition of O. Sverdrup G. Isaksen and S. Hassel.