Storker Storkerson collection 1913-1918

Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918)

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With the goal of finding a continent north of the Canadian Archipelago, Vilhjalmur Stefansson organized the Canadian Arctic Expedition. Stefansson had already distinguished himself as an explorer and ethnologist by spending 18 months with the Inuit of the Mackenzie Delta, learning their language and customs during the Anglo-American expedition of 1906-1907. Furthermore, during an expedition from 1908 to 1912, he made notoriety by discovering a group of fair-haired natives on Victoria Island that...

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson was born on November 3, 1879 in Arnes, Manitoba, Canada. He attended the University of North Dakota from 1897-1902. He was voted the best orator in 1900, and also worked for the school newspaper. In 1930 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, only the third such degree awarded. He then transferred to the University of Iowa and graduated in 1903 with a degree from the School of Liberal Arts. He next enrolled at Harvard, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1...

Bernard Joseph Fidele b 1878

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Storkerson, Storker Theodor, 1883-1940.

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Storkerson was born in Norway in 1883. He was a member of the Anglo-American Arctic Expedition of 1906-1907, which was commanded by Ernest de Koven Leffingwell and Ejnar Mikkelsen, and a member of Stefansson's 1908-1912 expedition to eastern Alaska. He was also a member of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-1918; during the winter of 1917-1918, when Stefansson was ill with typhoid, Storkerson was in command of the expedition. From the description of Papers, 1913-1948. (Dartmouth ...

Storker Theodor Storkerson

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Storker Theodor Storkerson was born on 26 June 1883 in Norway. At the age of sixteen, he registered as a seaman in the Merchant Navy, later serving as mate on the Anglo-American Polar Expedition, 1906-1908 (leader Ernest de Koven Leffingwell), which charted the continental shelf north of Alaska. He returned north to continue the surveys of the north coast of Alaska on the United States Scientific Expedition, 1909-1912 (leader Ernest de Koven Leffingwell), serving as an assistant fro...