Mister President and Mrs Moussaieff, Your Majesties and Your Royal Highness, Lady Foreign Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen!
I am proud of the honour that has been bestowed on me to speak on this occasion – in such a wonderful natural setting, and in this lively northern community. I would like to thank the Institute, Níels Einarsson and everyone else who has invited me. Probably no one – not even Níels – could have known...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.502.2946 2023-05-15T14:53:34+02:00 Mister President and Mrs Moussaieff, Your Majesties and Your Royal Highness, Lady Foreign Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen! Sverker Sörlin Vilhjálmur Stefánsson Hans Ahlmann The Quest For An The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2004 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.502.2946 http://www.svs.is/Sverker Sorlin.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.502.2946 http://www.svs.is/Sverker Sorlin.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.svs.is/Sverker Sorlin.pdf text 2004 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T09:11:33Z I am proud of the honour that has been bestowed on me to speak on this occasion – in such a wonderful natural setting, and in this lively northern community. I would like to thank the Institute, Níels Einarsson and everyone else who has invited me. Probably no one – not even Níels – could have known that (and I certainly smiled twice inside when I received the invitation), but in fact Vilhjalmur Stefansson and his ideas had intrigued me for a very long time. And I thought it a perfect fit for this occasion to talk both of Stefansson and of his Swedish colleague in Arctic studies, Hans W:son Ahlmann, who has also interested me in my work and who holds a significant role in Swedish North Atlantic diplomacy. Together these two, scientist-diplomats of sorts, shared ideas on the human aspects of the Arctic, ideas that may be worth remembering on a day like this, when new initiatives and policies are being carved out for this vast and important region. I Already as a student I became interested in the historical geography of the polar regions, and in my raids in the libraries I soon came across the name Stefansson and books by him such as The Friendly Arctic and The Northward Course of Empire, both published in Text Arctic North Atlantic Unknown Ahlmann ENVELOPE(-65.750,-65.750,-67.867,-67.867) Arctic Stefansson ENVELOPE(-62.417,-62.417,-69.467,-69.467) |
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