many of the pilots under his command had become critical of his leadership. He resigned, bitterly, from the Air Force in 1946. Return to business In 1947, Riiser-Larsen again became the head of DNL, a few months before it merged with DDL, SIL and ABA to create SAS. He was the director of the Norwegian region of Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS) 1950–55. He then became an advisor to the SAS executive and a regional manager with responsibility for transcontinental air routes. One of these routes, although established after his retirement in 1955, represented the "fulfilment of a vision" : the route to North America over the North Pole. In 1951 Riiser-Larsen was chosen as the president of the World Movement for Federal World Government. Riiser-Larsen died in 1965, four days before his seventy-fifth birthday, and was buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund in Oslo. See also Riiser-Larsen Peninsula Riiser-Larsen Sea Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf Mount Riiser-Larsen References Bibliography Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Femti År for Kongen (Fifty Years for the King, Riiser-Larsen's autobiography), Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1958. 1890 births 1965 deaths Aviation pioneers Explorers of Antarctica Explorers of the Arctic Norwegian aviators 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople Norwegian polar explorers Royal Norwegian Navy World War II admirals Royal Norwegian Air Force World War II generals Norwegian Air Lines people World federalist activists