Karl Blomkvist collection 1895

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Karl Blomkvist collection 1895

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Scott Polar Research Institute

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Scott Polar Research Institute

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Jackson, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1860-1938

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Frederick George Jackson was born on 6 March 1860 at Coughton, near Alcester, Warwickshire. He was educated at Denstone College and studied for a brief period at Edinburgh University. In 1887, he sailed to the Greenland Sea on a six-month voyage in the sealer and whaler Eric . In 1893, he published an outline of his proposal for an Arctic expedition using Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa as a base in the Geographical Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. To test clothing, equipment and fo...

Blomkvist, Karl

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Karl Blomkvist served as assistant on the British Exploring Expedition (Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition), 1894-1897 (leader Frederick George Jackson), an expedition sponsored primarily by the newspaper proprietor Alfred Harmsworth to complete the exploration of Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa. After establishing their winter quarters at Mys Flora on Ostrov Nordbruk in autumn 1894, Blomkvist, Jackson and Albert Armitage set out on their main northern journey in April 1895, with three ponies to draw the...

Windward (Ship)

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