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    Carl Anton Larsen (7 August 1860 – 8 December 1924) was a Norwegian-born whaler and Antarctic explorer who made important contributions to the exploration...
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    re-established on 16 November 1904 by Norwegian Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen on the long-used site of former whaling settlements. Grytviken is...
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    Peninsula from Cape Longing to Smith Peninsula. It is named after Captain Carl Anton Larsen, the master of the Norwegian whaling vessel Jason, who sailed along...
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  • Carl Larsen (1886–1962) was a Danish gymnast. Carl Larsen may also refer to: Carl Anton Larsen (1860–1924), Norwegian Antarctic explorer Emanuel Larsen...
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    1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour to Antarctica in the Heroic Age...
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  • politician Henning Holck-Larsen (1907–2003), Danish co-founder of the Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro Carl Anton Larsen (1860–1924), Norwegian Antarctic...
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    a 30-year gap. 1892–1893 – Carl Anton Larsen led the first Norwegian expedition to Antarctica aboard the ship Jason. Larsen became the first person to...
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    the expedition ship Antarctic which in 1902, under the command of Carl Anton Larsen, was the first vessel to navigate it. Since 1998 cruise ships have...
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    miles) wide. The inlet was named for King Haakon VII of Norway by Carl Anton Larsen, founder of Grytviken. Queen Maud Bay, named for his queen, is nearby...
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    for his participation in an 1892–1893 Antarctic expedition led by Carl Anton Larsen. The vessel reached 68°10'S, and set a new record for distance travelled...
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    see Does (2003). In 1926 the C.A. Larsen, named after the Norwegian pioneer in Antarctic whaling Carl Anton Larsen, had a slipway built in its bows. This...
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  • Expedition (BrNAE) (1901-04) under Scott, who named it for Captain Carl Anton Larsen, noted Norwegian Antarctic explorer whose explorations along the east...
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    peak of Mount Larsen at 710 m (2,329 ft) above sea level. Mount Larsen is named after the Antarctic explorer and whaler Carl Anton Larsen. On the southwestern...
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  • Kolomeitsev Alexander Kuchin Paul Landry Dmitry Laptev Khariton Laptev Carl Anton Larsen Georges Lecointe Christian Leden Ernest de Koven Leffingwell Percy...
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    Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Filchner, who named it for Captain Carl Anton Larsen a Norwegian explorer, who made significant contributions to the exploration...
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    for exploring the Antarctic region together with his father-in-law Carl Anton Larsen, looking to make a living from whaling. He was killed when his ship...
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  • Antarctic together with Carl Anton Larsen among others, and in 1893 he reached the Antarctic Peninsula on board the barque Hertha. Carl Julius Evensen was...
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    their families. Among them was the founder of Grytviken, Captain Carl Anton Larsen, a prominent Norwegian whaler and explorer who, along with his family...
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    was pre-built in Norway and erected in Grytviken by whalers led by Carl Anton Larsen around 1912–1913. The church consists of a single nave leading to...
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  • Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, was founded by Sandefjordian Carl Anton Larsen in November 1904. Although never Norwegian territories, many settlements...
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  • was first seen and mapped as an island in December 1893 by Captain Carl Anton Larsen, who named it after the Hertha, a ship which combined sealing and...
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    Pesca (CAP), an Argentine-registered whaling company run by Norwegian Carl Anton Larsen, was the first company to set up operations on South Georgia in 1904...
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  • Solveig Gunbjörg Jacobsen Heinrich W. Klutschak Ludwig Kohl-Larsen Carl Anton Larsen Lauritz Larsen Kristen Løken Pat Lurcock Sarah Lurcock J.W. Matthew Clive...
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    of Carl Anton Larsen. The islands were recharted in 1933 by Discovery Investigations (DI) personnel on the Discovery II, who used the name Larsen Islands...
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    history of the continent. In December 1892 when Norwegian Captain, Carl Anton Larsen landed his ship, the Jason, on Seymour Island, he returned with more...
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    became a base for whaling beginning in the 20th century. A Norwegian, Carl Anton Larsen, established the first land-based whaling station and first permanent...
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    also originate from the fumaroles. The same odour may have poisoned Carl Anton Larsen during his 1908 visit and forced him off the island. Later reports...
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  • Aasheim, diplomat and civil servant Ingrid Aune, Mayor of Malvik (2015–2019) Anton Christian Bang, former Minister of Education and Church Affairs Kjell Magne...
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  • South Georgia he cured himself out and met his wife, the daughter of Carl Anton Larsen, the founder of the whaling station at Grytviken. During the First...
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    seaward on December 1, 1893, by Carl Anton Larsen, who named one of the high peaks "Mount Jason" after his ship, the Jason. Larsen was too distant to map the...
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