Valter Schytt (1919-1985)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Blake, Jr., Weston
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1988
• Subjects: Biographies; Expeditions; Explorers; Glaciology; History; International Geophysical Year 1957-58; Schytt; Valter; 1919-1985; Polar regions; Antarctic; Austral; Franz Josef Land; Greenland; Gunnar; Svalbard; Tarfala; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Arctic; Arctique*; Northeast Passage; Lapland
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64763

Valter Schytt, Sweden's leading glaciologist and polar scientist, died 30 March 1985 in the Tarfala valley, Kebnekaise, Swedish Lapland. . Always an internationalist, Schytt became the first non-British president of the International Glaciological Society (1969-72), he was long-time council mem...