The polar ship Scotia

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Erskine, Angus B., Kjær, Kjell-G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2005
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Greenland; Norway; Weddell; South Orkney Islands; Sund; Scoresby; Scoresby Sund; Laurie; Knudsen; Ryder; Dundee; Laurie Island; Angmagssalik; Antarc*; North Atlantic; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247405004237; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247405004237

The ship that the oceanographer Dr William Speirs Bruce used on the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902–04, was originally a sealer named Hekla , built in Norway in 1872. In 1889 the Norwegian skipper Ragnvald Knudsen explored the northeast coast of Greenland between latitudes 74° and 75°,...