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Carsten Borchgrevink

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Carsten Borchgrevink

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Also known as Carsten E. Borchgrevink, Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink, C.E. Borchgrevink

Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer (1864-1934)

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Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink was a Norwegian explorer born in Christiania on December 1, 1864. He participated in the Southern Cross Expedition and spoke English. Borchgrevink received the Order of St. Olav and is described in the Nordisk familjebok and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.

He authored works including *First on the Antarctic continent* and *Nærmest sydpolen aaret 1900*. Borchgrevink died in Oslo on April 21, 1934, and is buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund. He had four children. Items from his collection are held at the Natural History Museum.

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