Chapter 1. Remarks on the opening of the historic place names of Franz Josef Land workshop, Oslo, Norway, 12-13 May 2015

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  • Susan Barr The Ministry of Culture

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3578

Keywords:

Franz Josef Land, polar exploration, Oslo NSF workshop, women in polar studies

Abstract

Remarks at the opening of a workshop, sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and held in Oslo, Norway, from 12-13 May 2015, to discuss the historic place names of the High Arctic archipelago of Franz Josef Land. The visiting students from Penn State University, none of whom had ever before been to Europe, were anxious to hear how Dr. Barr, a native of the United Kingdom, had come to Norway and made a life for herself in a different country with a different language, as a female in a then-largely male universe of polar research, and, in a nation of hunters, as a vegetarian.

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Author Biography

Susan Barr, The Ministry of Culture

Dr. Susan Barr of the Cultural Ministry in Oslo, Norway, is a preeminent polar historian and ethnologist. As one of the first Westerners to visit many of the historic sites of Franz Josef Land just as the Soviet Union collapsed, she edited the seminal volume Franz Josef Land (Oslo: Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1995), among her dozens of article and monograph works in the history and exploration of the Polar Regions.

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Published

2015-09-09

How to Cite

Barr, S. (2015). Chapter 1. Remarks on the opening of the historic place names of Franz Josef Land workshop, Oslo, Norway, 12-13 May 2015. Septentrio Conference Series, (3), 4–6. https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3578

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

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Chapters

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