Carsten Borchgrevink
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Carsten Borchgrevink
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Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink was a Norwegian polar explorer and a pioneer of Antarctic travel. He inspired Sir Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and others associated with the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Borchgrevink was born and raised in Christiania as the son of a Norwegian lawyer and an English-born immigrant mother. He began his exploring career in 1894 by joining a Norwegian whaling expedition, during which he became one of the first people to set foot on
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Norwegian polar explorer (1864–1934)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Borchgrevink
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2004-07-07T16:58:14Z
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2024-09-01T16:12:52Z
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