was appointed to knight of the Order of St. Olav in 1931 and in 1944 he received the Commander's Cross with the Star of Order of St. Olav. Christensen was awarded an honorary doctorate at St. Olaf College. Christensen was a fellow of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and received its Gunnerus Medal, and an honorary fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was an honorary member of the Norwegian Geographic Society and in the Royal Norwegian Science Society in Trondheim and was awarded of the American Geographical Society David Livingstone Centenary Medal in 1935. References Related reading Lars Christensen (1938) My Last Expedition to the Antarctic 1936-1937 (Oslo: Johan Grundt Tanum) Hans S I Bogen (1955) 70 år. Lars Christensen og hans samtid (Oslo: Johan Grundt Tanum) 1884 births 1965 deaths People from Sandefjord Norwegian people in whaling Norwegian philanthropists Norwegian businesspeople in shipping Norwegian expatriates in the United States Recipients of the King Haakon VII Freedom Cross Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Commanders of the Order of Vasa Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog Recipients of the St. Olav's Medal 20th-century philanthropists