Riiser-Larsen’s years of polar exploration began in 1925 when his compatriot Roald Amundsen, the famed polar explorer, asked him to be his deputy and pilot for an attempt to fly over the North Pole.Riiser-Larsen agreed and secured the use of two Dornier Do J Wal seaplanes, with Karl Feucht as one of two expedition flight mechanics. The expedition , however, was forced to land close to the Pole …
J . Larssen , Bergen: 1367 gt: … Gerlache was leader of the expedition , George Lecointe, ship’s captain, and Roald Amundsen, of later fame, was Chief Officer. A Romanian scientist, Emile Racovita, was a member of the party, explaining Belgica’s appearance on a Romanian stamp. The ship reached Lat 71°30′ S. on 3 March 1898 and was caught in the …
Riiser-Larsen’s years of polar exploration began in 1925 when his compatriot Roald Amundsen, the famed polar explorer, asked him to be his deputy and pilot for an attempt to fly over the North Pole.Riiser-Larsen agreed and secured the use of two Dornier Do J Wal seaplanes, with Karl Feucht as one of two expedition flight mechanics. The expedition , however, was forced to land close to the Pole …
Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen (7 June 1890 – 3 June 1965) was a Norwegian aviation pioneer, polar explorer and businessman. Among his achievements, he is generally regarded as the founder of the Royal Norwegian Air Force.. Riiser-Larsen was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1890. In 1909, aged nineteen, he joined the Norwegian Naval Academy and in 1915 the newly formed Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service (RNoNAS).
Since the first expedition in 1991, CI’s RAP teams have conducted biodiversity surveys in more than 90 terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments, leading to the discovery of more than 1,500 species new to science and the protection of 21 million hectares (5.2 million acres) of land and, Sci. 43, 90–106. for in the data sets of 1996 and 2001 because they included fog Heintzenberg, J . and Larssen , S. 1983. SO 2 and SO 4 in the Arctic: in- drop size distributions. In the first approach size-dependent fre- terpretation of observations at three Norwegian Arctic-subArctic sta- quencies of occurrence of modal concentrations during …
A joint expedition comprising the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Norsk Hydro, Saga Petroleum a.s, Statoil and University of Oslo, visited Kong Karls Land in 1992, with the purpose of making a …
The Arctic Ocean Expedition of 2001 (AOE-2001) to the central Arctic mostly north of latitude 85°N was conducted to study marine life forms and their products in water and ice, how their products …
However, there are a number of eontologia Electronica, 4, 9 pp. differences between PMO 219.250 and the known Hulke, J .W. 1873: Memorandum on some fossil vertebrate remains col- lected by the Swedish expedition to Spitzbergen in 1864 and 1868. species of Phalarodon, which suggests that the taxonomic Bihang till Kungliga Svenska …
Background []. Riiser-Larsen was born in Kristiania, Norway.In 1909, aged nineteen, he joined the Norwegian Naval Academy.In 1915 he became a 1st lieutenant in the newly formed Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service (RNoNAS). After World War I, he served as the acting head of the RNoNAS’s factory until a more senior officer was appointed.In 1921, he joined the Aviation Council, then part of the …
