Bengt Emmerik Danielsson was a crew memeber on a 1947 expedition led by what explorer?
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Bengt Danielsson Bengt Emmerik Danielsson (6 July 1921 – 4 July 1997) was a Swedish anthropologist and a crew member on the "Kon-Tiki" raft expedition from South America to French Polynesia in 1947.
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Kon-Tiki expedition The "Kon-Tiki" expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named "Kon-Tiki" after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name. "" is also the name of Heyerdahl's book; the Academy Award-winning documentary film chronicling his adventures; and the 2012 dramatised feature film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Lednikov Bay Lednikov Bay ( ) is a small bay just west of McDonald Bay on the coast of Antarctica. The bay was mapped in 1955 from aerial photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47. It was remapped by the Soviet expedition of 1956 and named "Bukhta Lednikovaya" (glacier bay), probably because of its location at the terminus of a small glacier.
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Hornodden Hornodden is headland at the southeastern point of the island of Kvitøya in the Svalbard archipelago. It is named after geologist and Arctic explorer Gunnar Horn, leader of the Bratvaag Expedition to Kvitøya in 1930.
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Polaris expedition The Polaris expedition (1871) was led by the American Charles Francis Hall, who intended it to be the first expedition to reach the North Pole. Sponsored by the United States government, it was one of the first serious attempts at the Pole, after that of British naval officer William Edward Parry, who in 1827 reached latitude 82°45′ North. The expedition failed at its main objective being hampered by insubordination, incompetence, and poor leadership.
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Andreas Beck (explorer) Andreas Beck (October 8, 1864 – March 18, 1914) was a Norwegian seal-hunter, polar captain, ice captain, and shipowner.
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Edman Island Edman Island is an island near the center of O'Brien Bay, Budd Coast. It was first mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Donald H. Edman, an ionospheric scientist and a member of the Wilkes Station party of 1958.
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Dalton Iceberg Tongue The Dalton Iceberg Tongue ( ) is a large iceberg tongue that extends seaward from the eastern part of Moscow University Ice Shelf. The feature was partly delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47). It was mapped on the basis of observation by Phillip Law from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) aircraft in 1958, and visited in February 1960 by the ANARE ("Magga Dan") led by Phillip Law, and named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for R.F.M. Dalton, second-in-command of the latter expedition.
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen (20 September [O.S. 9 September] 1778 – 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1852 ; Russian: Фаддей Фаддеевич Беллинсгаузен , Faddey Faddeyevich Bellinsgauzen), a Russian officer of Baltic German descent in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer, ultimately rose to the rank of Admiral. He participated in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe and subsequently became a leader of another circumnavigation expedition which discovered the continent of Antarctica.
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Gustav Frederik Holm Gustav Frederik Holm (August 6, 1849 – March 13, 1940) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer, born at Copenhagen.
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Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition The sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition ("Den norske antarktisekspedisjonen") was a scientific expedition to Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. The expedition was based at Norway Station ( ) which was located on the Fimbul Ice Shelf bordering the coast of Queen Maud Land.
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First Grinnell Expedition The First Grinnell Expedition of 1850 was the first American effort, financed by Henry Grinnell, to determine the fate of the lost Franklin Polar Expedition. Led by Lieutenant Edwin De Haven, the team explored the accessible areas along Franklin's proposed route. In coordination with British expeditions, they identified the remains of Franklin's Beechy Island winter camp, providing the first solid clues to Franklin's activities during the winter of 1845 before becoming icebound themselves.
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Alexander von Tunzelmann Alexander Francis Henry von Tunzelmann (15 June 1877 – 19 September 1957), a New Zealand crew member of the Norwegian whaling ship "Antarctic" was part of the first group known with certainty to have set foot on the mainland of Antarctica—at Cape Adare on 24 January 1895. It is possible that the Anglo-American sealer John Davis achieved this feat 74 years earlier, on 7 February 1821, but his journal entry is open to interpretation.
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Gulbrandsen Lake Gulbrandsen Lake is a lake 0.5 mi long lying north of Neumayer Glacier in South Georgia. It is now an empty basin; the moraine and or ice dam formed by the Neumeyer Glacier no longer contains this lake. It was charted and named "White City" by the British expedition under Ernest Shackleton, 1921–22, but this name is considered unsuitable and has never been used locally. Gulbrandsen Lake was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1957 for Gunnar Gulbrandsen, a pattern-maker at the Compañía Argentina de Pesca station at Grytviken, 1927–30, carpenter at Stromness, 1945–46, and variously carpenter, dock foreman, dockmaster, and junior officer at the South Georgia Whaling Company station, Leith Harbour, for several years beginning in 1946.
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Ellis Fjord Ellis Fjord ( ) is a long narrow fjord between Breidnes Peninsula and Mule Peninsula in the Vestfold Hills of Antarctica. It was photographed by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37), and plotted by Norwegian cartographers as a bay and a remnant lake which were called "Mulvik" (snout bay) and "Langevatnet" (long lake) respectively. Analysis by John Roscoe of air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47) showed these two features to be connected. The feature was renamed Ellis Fjord by Roscoe after Edwin E. Ellis, aerial photographer on U.S. Navy Operation Highjump flights over this area.
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Sigert Patursson Sigert O. Patursson (October 15, 1869 – September 17, 1931) was a Faroese explorer.
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Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916 The Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916 was a scientific expedition in the Arctic Circle organized and led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. The expedition was originally to be sponsored by the (US) National Geographic Society and the American Museum of Natural History. Canada took over the sponsorship because of the potential for discovery of new land and Stefansson, who though born in Canada was now an American, re-established his Canadian citizenship. The expedition was divided into a Northern Party led by Stefansson, and a Southern Party led by R M. Anderson.
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Gouverneur Island Gouverneur Island is a low rocky island 1.2 nmi west-southwest of Petrel Island and 2.4 nmi east of Cape Géodésie in the southern part of the Géologie Archipelago, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and was charted and named by the French Antarctic Expedition under André F. Liotard, 1949–51. Liotard was the first man to encamp on the island and, as leader of the Expedition, also held the honorary post of governor.
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3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition The Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1957–59) was led by Yevgeny Tolstikov on the continent and included Czech future astronomer Antonín Mrkos; the marine expedition on the "Ob" was led by I V Maksimov.
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Larsøya Larsøya, sometimes anglicized as Lars Island, is a rocky island, less than 0.2 nmi long, which lies just off the southwestern extremity of the island of Bouvetøya in the South Atlantic Ocean. It was first roughly charted in 1898 by a German expedition under Carl Chun. The Norwegian expedition under Captain Harald Horntvedt made a landing on the island from the ship "Norvegia" in December 1927, and named it after Lars Christensen, sponsor of the expedition.
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Boye Schlytter Boye Hamilton Schlytter (22 October 1891 – 9 December 1977) was a Norwegian businessperson and mountain climber. He was president of Norsk Tindeklub from 1928 to 1948. In June 1936, he led the expedition to recover three bodies from Lihesten after the "Havørn" Accident. On 22 August, Schlytter and three others in the expedition were awarded the Medal for Heroic Deeds.
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Caroline Mikkelsen Caroline Mikkelsen (20 November 1906 – 15 September 1998, later married Mandel) was a Danish-Norwegian explorer who in 1935 was the first woman to set foot on Antarctica, although whether this was on the mainland or an island is a matter of dispute.