W. L. G. Joerg (1885-1952)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Friis, Herman R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1953
• Subjects: Aerial surveys; Animal distribution; Arctic char; Bears; Biological sampling; Caribou; Coregoninae; Coregonus; Fishes; Grizzly bears; Identification; Lake trout; Mammals; Sculpins; Social surveys; Banks Island; N.W.T; Nunavik; Québec; Antarctic; Arctic; Brooklyn; Joerg; Peary; Antarc*; Arctic Institute of North America; caribou; The Arctic Institute
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66932

On 7 January 1952 one of America's leading geographers, W.L G. Joerg, Chief Archivist of the Cartographic Records Branch of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of sixty-six. Wolfgang Louis Gottfried Joerg was born in Brooklyn, New York, on...