Chapter 6. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin and the Quereau Glacier

Authors

  • Jacqueline Lanning

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3583

Keywords:

Franz Josef Land, historic place names, historical geography, Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, Walter Wellman, Edmund Chase Quereau, Quereau Glacier, polar exploration, Oslo NSF workshop

Abstract

On September 20, 1898, during the second Wellman polar expedition, Wellman’s second-in-command, Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, gave the name ‘Quereau’ to a glacier on the west coast of Wilczek Land. There is no direct evidence, as of this writing, that can be found on why he described this feature as a ‘Querean’ glacier. However, there is indirect evidence supporting the notion that he named the glacier after a geology professor, Edmund Chase Quereau.

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Published

2015-09-09

How to Cite

Lanning, J. (2015). Chapter 6. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin and the Quereau Glacier. Septentrio Conference Series, (3), 56–62. https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3583

Issue

No. 3 (2015): Proceedings of a Workshop on the Historic Place Names of Franz Josef Land

Section

Chapters