OXFORD EXPEDITIONS TO NORDAUSTLANDET (NORTH EAST LAND), SPITSBERGEN

• Main Authors: H. R. Thompson, Who Include Charles Elton, Dr. K. S. S, Professor Kenneth, Professor A. C. Hardy, R. Scott Russell, Amyan Macfadyen, Dr. T. G
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Jan Mayen; Nordaustlandet; Scott Polar Research Institute; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.552.1239; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic6-3-213.pdf

A FOLLOWER of arctic exploration since 1920 cannot have failed to notice the very large number of expeditions organized by undergraduates of British universities. The pioneers in this movement were Oxford and Cambridge, which are still in the vanguard today. Whereas Cambridge is fortunate in possessing the Scott Polar Research Institute as well as a formidable number of senior polar experts, Oxford’s work has received its stimulus through the purely local Oxford University Exploration Club and has always suffered from a lack of building and library facilities. Nevertheless, the O.U.E.C. has eleven honorary and some one hundred life members, besides numerous temporary adherents. About twenty gradu-ates and undergraduates attend the regular Club meetings and forty-five are listed as taking part in one or more expeditions in the period 1947-50 (O.U.E.C. Bull. No. 4, 1951). The regions visited in these four years are Jan Mayen