Chapter 7. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin and Kersting Bay

Authors

  • Alejandro Cruz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3584

Keywords:

Franz Josef Land, historic place names, historical geography, Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, Walter Wellman, Rudolf Kersting, Kersting Bay, polar exploration, Oslo NSF workshop

Abstract

A letter from Evelyn Briggs Baldwin to the photographer Rudolf Kersting in May of 1898 lends credence to the notion that the two men were close associates, shared membership in the Arctic Club of America, and that Kersting was the personality behind Baldwin’s place name of Kersting Bay on Wilczek Island in Franz Josef Land later in 1898 during the second Wellman polar expedition.

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Published

2015-09-09

How to Cite

Cruz, A. (2015). Chapter 7. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin and Kersting Bay. Septentrio Conference Series, (3), 63–68. https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3584