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Carl Anton Larsen, the Glossary

Carl Anton Larsen (7 August 1860 – 8 December 1924) was a Norwegian-born whaler and Antarctic explorer who made important contributions to the exploration of Antarctica, the most significant being the first discovery of fossils for which he received the Back Grant from the Royal Geographical Society.^[1]

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Graham Land
History of South Georgia
Norwegian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Norwegian people in whaling
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands people
South Orkney Islands
Whaling in Antarctica

Antarctic

The Antarctic (or, American English also or; commonly) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.

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Antarctic (ship)

Antarctic was a Swedish steamship built in Drammen, Norway, in 1871.

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Antarctic Sound

The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about long and from wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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ARA Uruguay

The corbeta (corvette) ARA Uruguay, built in England, is the largest ship afloat of its age in the Armada de la República Argentina (Argentine Navy), with more than 140 years passed since its commissioning in September 1874.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Barque

A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts consisting of a fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft.

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Bellingshausen Sea

The Bellingshausen Sea is an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula between 57°18'W and 102°20'W, west of Alexander Island, east of Cape Flying Fish on Thurston Island, and south of Peter I Island (there the southern Vostokkysten).

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Bottlenose whale

Hyperoodon (or Hyperoödon) is a genus of beaked whale, containing just two species: the Northern and Southern bottlenose whales.

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Bristol Island

Bristol Island is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean.

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Carl Julius Evensen

Carl Julius Evensen (3 December 1851 – 3 October 1937) was a Norwegian shipmaster and explorer. Carl Anton Larsen and Carl Julius Evensen are explorers of Antarctica, Norwegian polar explorers and People from Sandefjord.

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Chief mate

A chief mate (C/M) or chief officer, usually also synonymous with the first mate or first officer, is a licensed mariner and head of the deck department of a merchant ship.

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Church of Norway

The Church of Norway (Den norske kirke, Den norske kyrkja, Norgga girku, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway.

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Citizenship

Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state.

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Compañía Argentina de Pesca

Compañía Argentina de Pesca (Argentine Fishing Company) was initiated by the British-Norwegian whaler and Antarctic explorer Carl A. Larsen, and established on 29 February 1904 by three foreign residents of Buenos Aires: the Norwegian consul P. Christophersen, H.H. Schlieper (US national), and E. Carl Anton Larsen and Compañía Argentina de Pesca are history of South Georgia and whaling in Antarctica.

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Emperor penguin

The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.

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Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. Carl Anton Larsen and Ernest Shackleton are explorers of Antarctica.

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Exploration

Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Carl Anton Larsen and Fridtjof Nansen are Norwegian polar explorers.

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Graham Land

Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. Carl Anton Larsen and Graham Land are British Antarctic Territory.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Grytviken

Grytviken is a hamlet on South Georgia in the South Atlantic and formerly a whaling station and the largest settlement on the island.

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History of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

The history of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is relatively recent. Carl Anton Larsen and history of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are whaling in Antarctica.

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Hope Bay

Hope Bay (Spanish: Bahía Esperanza) is a bay long and wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound. Carl Anton Larsen and Hope Bay are British Antarctic Territory.

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Jason (1881 ship)

Jason was a Norwegian whaling vessel laid down in 1881 by Rødsverven in Sandefjord, Norway, the same shipyard which later built Ernest Shackleton's ship ''Endurance''. Carl Anton Larsen and Jason (1881 ship) are Graham Land.

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Jason Peninsula

Jason Peninsula is a large peninsula on the east coast of Graham Land comprising several mainly snow-covered summits.

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Joinville Island

Joinville Island is the largest island of the Joinville Island group, about long in an east–west direction and wide, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by the Antarctic Sound.

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Joinville Island group

Joinville Island group is a group of antarctic islands, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which Joinville Island group is separated by the Antarctic Sound.

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King penguin

The king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is the second largest species of penguin, smaller, but somewhat similar in appearance to the emperor penguin.

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Larsen Harbour

Larsen Harbour (Bahía Larsen) is a narrow long inlet of indenting volcanic rocks and sheeted dykes known as the Larsen Harbour Formation.

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Larsen Ice Shelf

The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to Smith Peninsula. Carl Anton Larsen and Larsen Ice Shelf are British Antarctic Territory.

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Magistrate

The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law.

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Montagu Island

Montagu Island is the largest of the South Sandwich Islands, located in the Scotia Sea off the coast of Antarctica.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Norwegian Anglican Church, Grytviken

The Norwegian Anglican Church, sometimes known as the Whalers Church, and as the Norwegian Lutheran Church (until 2013), and casually as the Grytviken Church, is a church in Grytviken, South Georgia, built in 1913.

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Norwegians

Norwegians (Nordmenn) are an ethnic group and nation native to Norway, where they form the vast majority of the population.

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Officer of the deck

An officer of the deck (OOD) underway is a watchstanding duty officer on a surface ship in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps who is tasked with certain duties and responsibilities for the ship.

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Oscar II

Oscar II (Oscar Fredrik; 21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907) was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death in 1907 and King of Norway from 1872 to 1905.

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Otto Nordenskjöld

Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (6 December 1869 – 2 June 1928) was a Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer. Carl Anton Larsen and Otto Nordenskjöld are explorers of Antarctica.

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Paleontology

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Paulet Island

Paulet Island is a circular island about in diameter, lying south-east of Dundee Island, off the north-eastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Prince Gustav Channel

The Prince Gustav Channel is a strait about long and from wide, separating James Ross Island and Vega Island from the Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica.

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Reindeer in South Georgia

Reindeer in South Georgia are an example of an animal which has been introduced outside its native range. Carl Anton Larsen and Reindeer in South Georgia are history of South Georgia.

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Robertson Island

Robertson Island is an ice-covered island, long in a northwest-southeast direction and wide, lying at the east end of the Seal Nunataks off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Ross Sea

The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth.

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Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom.

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Sailor

A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.

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Sandefjord

Sandefjord is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway.

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Sea captain

A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel. Carl Anton Larsen and sea captain are sea captains.

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Second mate

A second mate (2nd mate) or second officer (2/O) is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship holding a Second Mates Certificate of Competence, by an authorised governing state of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

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Seymour Island

Seymour Island or Marambio Island, is an island in the chain of 16 major islands around the tip of the Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Carl Anton Larsen and Seymour Island are British Antarctic Territory.

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Ski

A ski is a narrow strip of semi-rigid material worn underfoot to glide over snow.

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Snow Hill Island

Snow Hill Island is an almost completely snowcapped island, long and wide, lying off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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South Georgia

South Georgia is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Svend Foyn

Svend Foyn (July 9, 1809 – November 30, 1894) was a Norwegian whaling, shipping magnate and philanthropist. Carl Anton Larsen and Svend Foyn are Norwegian people in whaling.

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Swedish Antarctic Expedition

The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen.

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Thule Island

Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tjølling

Tjølling is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway.

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Vega Island

Vega Island is an island in Antarctica, long and wide, which is the northernmost of the James Ross Island group and lies in the west part of Erebus and Terror Gulf. Carl Anton Larsen and Vega Island are British Antarctic Territory.

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Viktor Esbensen

Viktor Esbensen (11 March 1881 – 29 January 1942) was a Norwegian mariner known for exploring the Antarctic region together with his father-in-law Carl Anton Larsen, looking to make a living from whaling. Carl Anton Larsen and Viktor Esbensen are explorers of Antarctica, history of South Georgia, Norwegian people in whaling, south Orkney Islands and whaling in Antarctica.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Anton_Larsen

Also known as C.A. Larsen.

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See also

Graham Land

History of South Georgia

Norwegian emigrants to the United Kingdom

Norwegian people in whaling

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands people

South Orkney Islands

Whaling in Antarctica

References