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A forgotten explorer: Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Hugh B. Evans  and
A. G. E. Jones
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C. E. Borchgrevink was born in Christiania (present-day Oslo) in 1864. His Norwegian father was a lawyer, and his English mother was a Miss Ridley. Little is known about his early years, but he said he had part of his education at Gjertsen College. He was a full-time student from the winter term 1885 to the winter term 1888 at the Royal Forestry School, Tharandt, Saxony, but seems to have obtained no certificate or diploma; later he mentioned that he had been a pupil of Professor E. Nobbe. When he was in his thirties he told H. J. Bull that he had been educated at Christiania University, but there is no evidence to support this. He also said he had served as a boy or apprentice in the Borghild in 1878, crossing the Atlantic in her, but there are no details.

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Polar Record , Volume 17 , Issue 108 , September 1974 , pp. 221 - 235
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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