Comments on the explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink by an unidentified writer, [ca. 1894-ca. 1899]
Comments on the explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink by an unidentified writer, [ca. 1894-ca. 1899]
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[ca. 1894-ca. 1899]
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MLMSS 10420
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0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript
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A document of three pages by an unknown author:
By a curious turn of Fortune’s Wheel C. E. Borchgrevink, who shipped from Melb. In Sept. ’94 “as a man before the mast” on board the Antarctic, under command of Capt. Kristensen, explorer to the South Pole is now in 99 leader of the expedition to that same land of ice, being sent along with the shi...
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Comments on the explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink by an unidentified writer, [ca. 1894-ca. 1899]
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Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink made two visits to Antarctica, in 1895 when he joined a Norwegian whaling expedition and became one of the first people to set foot on the Antarctic mainland, and later with the Southern Cross Expedition, 1898–1900
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MLMSS 10420
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YzOmVO89
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YzOmVO89
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9651131
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