Chapter 5. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin and Operti Bay

During the second Wellman polar expedition, to Franz Josef Land in 1898, Wellman’s second-in-command, Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, gave the waters south of Cape Heller on the northwest of Wilczek Land the name ‘Operti Bay.’ Proof of this is found in Baldwin’s journal around the time of 16 September 1898....

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Published in:Septentrio Conference Series
Main Author: Lockerby, Amanda
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2015
Subjects:
Franz Josef Land
historic place names
historical geography
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin
Walter Wellman
Albert Operti
Operti Bay
polar exploration
Oslo NSF workshop
Baldwin
Briggs
Evelyn
Kane
Wellman
Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/3582
https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3582
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Summary:During the second Wellman polar expedition, to Franz Josef Land in 1898, Wellman’s second-in-command, Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, gave the waters south of Cape Heller on the northwest of Wilczek Land the name ‘Operti Bay.’ Proof of this is found in Baldwin’s journal around the time of 16 September 1898. Current research indicates that Operti Bay was named after an Italian artist, Albert Operti. Operti’s membership in a New York City masonic fraternity named Kane Lodge, as well as correspondence between Baldwin and Rudolf Kersting, confirm that Baldwin and Operti engaged in a friendly relationship that resulted in the naming of the bay.

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