Proceedings of a Workshop on the Place Names of Franz Joseph Land
A workshop, held in Oslo, Norway, from 12-13 May 2015, and supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, initiated a discussion of the historic place names of the High Arctic archipelago of Franz Josef Land. The islands contain hundreds of place names that amount to a virtual catalog of polar e...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Department of Anthropology, Penn State University
2018
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Online Access: | https://journals.psu.edu/opa/article/view/61070 |
Summary: | A workshop, held in Oslo, Norway, from 12-13 May 2015, and supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, initiated a discussion of the historic place names of the High Arctic archipelago of Franz Josef Land. The islands contain hundreds of place names that amount to a virtual catalog of polar exploration and explorers of the mid- to late-19th Century. The workshop examined the study of these historic names, as well as the potential creation of an English-language database of them. |
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