Magnus Giver collection 1881

Magnus K Giver

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Magnus K Giver was owner and captain of the Norwegian vessel Laura, which was charted by Max Fleischmann in 1906 to take a small group of friends and relatives on a United States hunting trip to Svalbard waters. The expedition sailed to Spitsbergen in June, making excursions in Isfjorden where they hunted for reindeer and birds. In July, they headed west toward Greenland, hunting for seals along the way, but thick ice impeded their progress. They continued hunting for seals and bears in that reg...

Giver Magnus K

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Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 1828-1913

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Benjamin Leigh Smith was born on 12 March 1828 at Whatlington, Sussex. He was educated at the Nonconformist Bruce Castle School and, in 1848, was elected a pensioner of Jesus College, Cambridge, becoming the first dissenter to receive a BA degree. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1856, but never practised. Smith embarked on his first voyage to the Arctic in 1871 when he sailed in the ketch Samson to Svalbard on the British Exploring Expedition, reaching la...

Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 1827-1891

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Barbara Bodichon (nee Leigh Smith) was born on 8 April 1827 at Whatlington, Sussex, sister of the Arctic explorer, Benjamin Leigh Smith (1828-1913). She was educated privately and studied political economy, law and art at Bedford Square Ladies College, London, becoming a painter of some renown. After receiving an endowment from her father, she established her own progressive school in London, later known as the Portman Hall School. During the 1850s, she concentrated on the campaign ...

British Exploring Expedition North Russia 1881-1882

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Blythe Isabella

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