From explorer to expert: Sir William Martin Conway's ‘delightful sense of something accomplished’

ABSTRACT In 1896, Sir William Martin Conway led an expedition to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, then a terra nullius . It was the first expedition to cross the interior of the main island, Spitsbergen. Was Conway an ‘expert’ explorer or an enthusiastic amateur, or something in-between? This art...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Jones, Mary Katherine
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2013
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Arctic
Svalbard
Conway
Main Island
Arctic Archipelago
Polar Record
Spitsbergen
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247413000739
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247413000739

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