Chapter 2. The historical geography of an archipelago of polar explorers
An outline of the rationale for a workshop, held in Oslo, Norway, from 12-13 May 2015, to discuss 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- t...
| Published in: | Septentrio Conference Series |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2015
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| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/3579 https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3579 |
| Summary: | An outline of the rationale for a workshop, held in Oslo, Norway, from 12-13 May 2015, to discuss 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. As an example, three American expeditions spent seven years there between 1898-1905, in failed attempts to try to reach the geographic North Pole. However, in the process, they left behind a record of the American Gilded Age that survived even 70 years of Soviet Communism. |
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