Richard Bøgvad, 1897-1952

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Troelsen, J.C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1953
• Subjects: Animal husbandry; Atmospheric temperature; Breakup; Clouds; Coasts; Domestic sheep; Estuaries; Glaciology; Ice islands; Ice shelves; Measurement; Melting; Oceanography; River discharges; River ice; Rivers; Sea ice; Size; Stream flow; Surveying; Temperature; Thickness; Winds; Banks Island; N.W.T; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Nunavut; Yelverton Bay; Kennedy Channel; Massey Sound; Melville; Lake; Labrador; Hamilton Inlet; Backway; The; Greenland; Grinnell Glacier; Arctic; Faroe Islands; Melville Lake; Mestersvig; Øresund; East Greenland; glacier; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Kennedy channel; The Arctic Institute; Thule
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66922

Richard Bøgvad, a Fellow of the Arctic Institute since December 1950, died suddenly from a heart attack on 7 August 1952 when on a mountain trip near Ivigtut in south Greenland. Sidney Richard Emil Bøgvad was born in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, on 21 November 1897. In 1924 he began his lifelong assoc...