Henry Larsen (1899-1964)
Henry Astrup Larsen was the first man to traverse the Northwest Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, beginning his historic voyage in Vancouver in 1940 and ending it in Halifax in 1942. Within two years of this major success, Larsen navigated the Passage from east to west, thus scoring another...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65336 2023-05-15T14:19:16+02:00 Henry Larsen (1899-1964) Omholt-Jensen, Edvard 1983-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65336 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65336/49250 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65336 ARCTIC; Vol. 36 No. 3 (1983): September: 227–310; 302-303 1923-1245 0004-0843 Biographies Expeditions Explorers History Ice navigation Larsen Henry Astrup 1899-1964 Old Maid (Ship) Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sovereignty St. Roch (Ship) Northwest Passage Victoria Island waters N.W.T./Nunavut info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion other 1983 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:25Z Henry Astrup Larsen was the first man to traverse the Northwest Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, beginning his historic voyage in Vancouver in 1940 and ending it in Halifax in 1942. Within two years of this major success, Larsen navigated the Passage from east to west, thus scoring another "first" by crossing the continent in both directions. In 1940, desirous of asserting its sovereignty over the Arctic Islands, the Canadian government entrusted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with the task of patrolling this barren, largely unexplored region of half a million square miles. Corporal Henry Larsen, captain of th R.C.M.P. schooner St. Roch and a 16-years veteran of the Arctic, was chosen as a key figure in this dangerous, ambitious, and politically expedient undertaking. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Northwest passage Nunavut Victoria Island University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Astrup ENVELOPE(-63.182,-63.182,-64.710,-64.710) Northwest Passage Nunavut Pacific ARCTIC 36 3 |
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Henry Astrup Larsen was the first man to traverse the Northwest Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, beginning his historic voyage in Vancouver in 1940 and ending it in Halifax in 1942. Within two years of this major success, Larsen navigated the Passage from east to west, thus scoring another "first" by crossing the continent in both directions. In 1940, desirous of asserting its sovereignty over the Arctic Islands, the Canadian government entrusted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with the task of patrolling this barren, largely unexplored region of half a million square miles. Corporal Henry Larsen, captain of th R.C.M.P. schooner St. Roch and a 16-years veteran of the Arctic, was chosen as a key figure in this dangerous, ambitious, and politically expedient undertaking. |
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