Luigi Amedeo, Duca degli Abruzzi

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An Italian explorer, Abruzzi, born Jan. 29, 1873 - died Mar. 18, 1933. The son of Amadeus, king of Spain (1870-73), prince of Savoy-Aosta, and a cousin of Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy. Abruzzi was the first to climb (1897) Mount St. Elias in Alaska and led (1899) a polar expedition that set a new record in the northern latitude reached. He later led mountain-climbing expeditions in the Ruwenzori range of East Africa (1906) and the Himalayas (1909). In World War I, Abruzzi commanded an Italian fleet in the Adriatic Sea
and afterward took part in the Italian colonization effort in East Africa.

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