George Comer (1858-1937)
. George Comer was a professional whaleman whose career spanned the final decades of whaling in Hudson Bay. Success in whaling alone would probably justify his inclusion in this series of biographical sketches, but Comer's achievements went far beyond the sufficiently challenging tasks of pursu...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65332 2023-05-15T14:19:16+02:00 George Comer (1858-1937) Ross, W. Gillies 1983-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65332 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65332/49246 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65332 ARCTIC; Vol. 36 No. 3 (1983): September: 227–310; 294-295 1923-1245 0004-0843 Artifacts Biographies Comer George 1856-1937 Ethnography History Inuit Scurvy Social conditions Social interaction Whaling Baffin Island waters Nunavut Baffin Island Hudson Bay Hudson Bay region Southampton Island waters Southampton Island info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion other 1983 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:25Z . George Comer was a professional whaleman whose career spanned the final decades of whaling in Hudson Bay. Success in whaling alone would probably justify his inclusion in this series of biographical sketches, but Comer's achievements went far beyond the sufficiently challenging tasks of pursuing whales, navigating small sailing vessels among pack ice, and wintering in the Arctic. He was a friend to the Inuit and a dedicated student of their culture, an amateur archaeologist, a scientific collector in the fields of ethnography and natural history, and a recognized arctic authority to whom a number of prominent scientists and writers owed much. . Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Baffin Island Baffin Hudson Bay inuit Nunavut Southampton Island University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Baffin Island Hudson Hudson Bay Nunavut Southampton Island ENVELOPE(-84.501,-84.501,64.463,64.463) ARCTIC 36 3 |
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. George Comer was a professional whaleman whose career spanned the final decades of whaling in Hudson Bay. Success in whaling alone would probably justify his inclusion in this series of biographical sketches, but Comer's achievements went far beyond the sufficiently challenging tasks of pursuing whales, navigating small sailing vessels among pack ice, and wintering in the Arctic. He was a friend to the Inuit and a dedicated student of their culture, an amateur archaeologist, a scientific collector in the fields of ethnography and natural history, and a recognized arctic authority to whom a number of prominent scientists and writers owed much. . |
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