Crawford, Janet

Janet Crawford was born in Britain in 1942, the grand-daughter of Louis Charles Bernacchi. She moved to South Africa as a child and was educated at Cape Town University. She worked for a publishing company before writing That first Antarctic Winter, an account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900 (leader Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink), based on the diaries of her grandfather who served as meteorologist and magnetometry observer on the expedition. She now lives in Britain.

Published work That first Antarctic winter by Janet Crawford, South Latitude Research Ltd. Christchurch New Zealand (1998) SPRI Library Shelf (7)91(08)[1898-1900]

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