Ernst Håkan Kranck (1898-1989)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Dunbar, Max
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1989
• Subjects: Biographies; Kranck; Ernst Håkan; 1898-1989; Expeditions; Geology; Geologists; Canadian Arctic; Axel Heiberg Island; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Labrador; Hudson Bay region; Labrador waters; Lapland; Russian Federation; Arctic; Newfoundland; Patagonia; Hudson Bay; Baffin Bay; Canada; Hudson; Tuva; Lappland; Heiberg; Rock Lake; Arctic Institute of North America; Baffin; The Arctic Institute; Siberia
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64737

Ernst Håkan Kranck, professor of geology at McGill University from 1948 to 1969, who died in late May 1989 at the age of 90, was a man whose achievements outran his public recognition because of his innate modesty. . McGill University invited him to come to Canada as visiting professor in 1948, and...