Chapter 7. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin and Kersting Bay

• 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

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...