Chapter 7. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin and Kersting Bay

A letter from Evelyn Briggs Baldwin to the photographer Rudolf Kersting in May of 1898 lends credence to the notion that the two men were close associates, shared membership in the Arctic Club of America, and that Kersting was the personality behind Baldwin’s place name of Kersting Bay on Wilczek Is...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Septentrio Conference Series
Main Author: Cruz, Alejandro
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
Rudolf Kersting
Kersting Bay
polar exploration
Oslo NSF workshop
Arctic
Baldwin
Briggs
Evelyn
Wellman
Wilczek Island
Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/3584
https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3584
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Summary:A letter from Evelyn Briggs Baldwin to the photographer Rudolf Kersting in May of 1898 lends credence to the notion that the two men were close associates, shared membership in the Arctic Club of America, and that Kersting was the personality behind Baldwin’s place name of Kersting Bay on Wilczek Island in Franz Josef Land later in 1898 during the second Wellman polar expedition.

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