Ole Jørgen Hammeken

Ole Jørgen Hammeken (born 1956) is a Greenlandic explorer and actor based in Denmark and Russia. He was born in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, and was the son of Maritha and Motzflot Hammeken.

Polar exploration
He participated in 2007 in the 'Global Warming Dogsled Expedition' – a journey of over 500 km up and over the Greenland ice sheet from Uummannaq Fjord to Ilulissat, intended to draw people's attention to climate change and global warming.

In 2008, Hammeken completed a circumpolar voyage in a motorized open boat. In February 2009, Hammeken planned a centennial dog sled trip from northern Canada to the North Pole, 771 km (480 mi), one-way, minimum distance, retracing the footsteps of Robert Peary. He is a member of The Explorers Club.

Acting
In 2009 Hammeken played the lead role of Ikuma in Le Voyage D'Inuk, a French-Greenlandic film in the Greenlandic language. The film premiered on 20 April 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Personal life
In 1993 Hammeken returned from Denmark, having abandoned a judicial career, deciding to settle in Uummannaq. January 2013 Hammeken moved from Uummannaq.

It is important to have all these things right because we were colonized so long ago, we can't remember what we forgot.

Hammeken is an advocate of traditional Greenlandic arts, preservation of dogsledding and historical hunting techniques.

He has a daughter named Alexandra Pipaluk Hammeken born in 1993.