Abruzzi, Luigi Amedeo, Duca degli
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Duca degli Luigi Amedeo Abruzzi
{ah-broot'-see, loo-ee'-jee ah-may-day'-oh} An Italian
Explorer, Abruzzi, b. Jan. 29, 1873, d. Mar. 18, 1933, was 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.
