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Björling–Kallstenius Expedition
The Björling–Kallstenius Expedition was an ill-fated, Arctic expedition led by Swedish naturalists Alfred Björling (1871-1892) and Evald Kallstenius (1868-1892). Their aim was to be the first to reach the North Pole. The expedition ended in disaster, with the deaths of the five member crew. Expedition In 1892, 21-year-old Alfred Björling organized an expedition to be the first to reach the North Pole. Björling convinced fellow countryman and zoologist Evald Kallstenius to join him on what was described as a "botanizing expedition to northern Greenland".Mowat, p. 224 The expedition was mounted on a very low budget and is considered to have been a romantic, even foolhardy, attempt at the Pole. In May 1892, the expedition left Stockholm with a course towards Liverpool and on to St. John's, Newfoundland. The explorers purchased the schooner ''Ripple'' in St. John's, hiring a crew of three; a Dane and two Newfoundlanders. In June the expedition left St. John's and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carey Islands
The Carey Islands (; ) are an island group off Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, northwest Greenland. Located relatively far offshore the Carey Islands are the westernmost point of Greenland as a territory. The sea surrounding the islands is clogged by ice most of the year. Geography The archipelago consists of six desolate islands, a few small islets and a number of rocks awash. It is located about to the west of Thule Air Base and to the SW of Cape Parry. The nearest settlement is Moriusaq to the east on the coast of Greenland, abandoned since 2007. Islands Main islands *Nordvestø, Isbjørneø and Mellemø form a compact cluster at the NW end of the archipelago. **Nordvestø, the biggest island with a length of and a width of nearly . This island's western landhead is the westernmost point of Greenland. Its highest point is . **Isbjørneø and Mellemø, lying close to the east and forming a natural harbour between them and Nordvestø. *Bordø and Björlingø, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th Century In The Arctic
19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics Nineteen is the eighth prime number. Number theory 19 forms a twin prime with 17, a cousin prime with 23, and a sexy prime with 13. 19 is the fifth central trinomial coefficient, and the maximum number of fourth powers needed to sum up to any natural number (see, Waring's problem). It is the number of compositions of 8 into distinct parts. 19 is the eighth strictly non-palindromic number in any base, following 11 and preceding 47. 19 is also the second octahedral number, after 6, and the sixth Heegner number. In the Engel expansion of pi, 19 is the seventh term following and preceding . The sum of the first terms preceding 17 is in equivalence with 19, where its prime index (8) are the two previous members in the sequence. Prime properties 19 is the seventh Mersenne prime exponent. It is the second Keith number, and more specifically the first Keith prim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 In The British Empire
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ''On the Elements According to Hippocrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 In Sweden
Events from the year 1892 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström. Events * Cision * Örebro Mission * Swedish Cooperage Union * 11 June - '' Stockholm Public Women's Club'' is founded in Stockholm. Births * 2 July – Anders Larsson, sport wrestler (died 1945). * 10 July – Augusta Björkenstam, countess and businessperson (died 1892) * 23 July – Erik Adlerz, diver (died 1975). * 15 August – Gösta Lundqvist, sailor (died 1944). * 4 December – Per Bertilsson, gymnast (died 1972). Deaths * 7 January - Maria Cederschiöld (deaconess) (born 1815) * Carolina Lindström, hat maker (born 1812) * 11 December - Nancy Edberg, pioneer swimmer (born 1832) * 25 January - Charlotta Norberg, ballerina (born 1824) * 21 October - Anne Charlotte Leffler, writer (born 1849) * Matilda Kristina von Schwerin, landowner (born 1818 Events January–March * January 1 ** Battle of Koregaon: Troops of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Ohlin
Axel Gabriel Ohlin (31 July 1867 – 12 July 1903) was a Swedish zoologist and Arctic and Antarctic explorer. Biography He was born in Visingsö to Per Ohlin and Hedda Hjertstedt. He was a student at Lund University earning a philosophy degree in 1890 and a doctorate in 1896. In 1894, Ohlin participated in a search operation after the missing Björling–Kallstenius Expedition. In 1895–1896, he participated in Otto Nordenskjöld's mineralogical expeditions to Patagonia. In 1898, he joined with Alfred Nathorst's expedition on the ship ''Antarctic'' to Bear Island, Svalbard and Kong Karls Land. He participated in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1904) led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. Ohlin Island, discovered during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour to Antarctica in the Heroic Age of Antarct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island (; ) is Canada's northernmost and List of Canadian islands by area, third largest island, and the List of islands by area, tenth largest in the world. It comprises an area of , slightly smaller than Great Britain, and the total length of the island is . Lying within the Arctic Archipelago, Ellesmere Island is considered part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. Cape Columbia at is the most northerly point of land in Canada and one of the most northern points of land on the planet (the most northerly point of land on Earth is the nearby Kaffeklubben Island of Greenland). The Arctic Cordillera mountain system covers much of Ellesmere Island, making it the most mountainous in the Arctic Archipelago. More than one-fifth of the island is protected as Quttinirpaaq National Park. In 2021, the population of Ellesmere Island was recorded at 144. There are three settlements: Alert, Nunavut, Alert, Eureka, Nunavut, Eureka, and Grise Fiord. Ellesmere Island is administered as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga''; ; ; ), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It is connected to the Atlantic via Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea. The narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean. The bay is not navigable most of the year because of the Arctic ice pack, ice cover and high density of Sea ice, floating ice and icebergs in the open areas. However, a polynya of about , known as the North Water Polynya, North Water, opens in summer on the north near Smith Sound. Most of the aquatic life of the bay is concentrated near that region. Extent The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of Baffin Bay as follows: History The area of the bay has been inhabited since BC. Around AD 1200, the initial Dorset culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inuit
Inuit (singular: Inuk) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and the Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskaleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, and also as Eskimo–Aleut. Canadian Inuit live throughout most of Northern Canada in the territory of Nunavut, Nunavik in the northern third of Quebec, the Nunatsiavut in Labrador, and in various parts of the Northwest Territories and Yukon (traditionally), particularly around the Arctic Ocean, in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. These areas are known, by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Government of Canada, as Inuit Nunangat. In Canada, sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 classify Inuit as a distinctive group of Abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctic Expedition
This list of Arctic expeditions is a timeline of historic Arctic exploration and explorers of the Arctic. 15th century * 1472: Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst mark the first of the cartographic expeditions to Greenland * 1496: , venturing out of the White Sea, travels along the Murman Coast and the coast of northern Norway 16th century * 1553: English expedition led by Hugh Willoughby with Richard Chancellor as second in command searches for the Northeast Passage * 1557: English expedition led by Stephen Borough reaches the Kara Strait * 1576–1578: English expeditions led by Martin Frobisher reach Baffin Island * 1579: Danish-Norwegian expedition led by James Alday fails to reach Greenland due to ice * 1580: English expedition led by Arthur Pet and Charles Jackman reaches the Kara Sea * 1581: Danish-Norwegian expedition led by Magnus Heinason fails to reach Greenland due to ice * 1585–1587: English expeditions led by John Davis explore the Davis Strait–Baffin Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
