Carl Pettersson (Navigator)
Carl Emil Pettersson (* 1875 in Sollentuna near Stockholm , † 1937 in Australia ) was a Swedish navigator and emigrant.
Carl Pettersson was hired as a cabin boy in 1887, came to the Bismarck Archipelago ( Papua New Guinea ) and worked there for a German company, the New Guinea Company . In 1904 he was shipwrecked and stranded on the island of Tabar (north of the island of New Ireland ), where he married the chief's daughter, Sindu. She bore him nine children, eight of whom reached adulthood. She died under unknown circumstances in 1922. In his second marriage, he was married to a Swedish-English woman who died in 1935. Pettersson began trading copra on Tabar , later found gold and made wealth.
Pettersson, about whose tremendous physical strength many anecdotes have circulated, is said to be the historical model of Efraim Longstocking (father of Pippi Longstocking ) in the children's books of the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren .
literature
- Joakim Langer, Hélena Regius: Pippi & the King. In the footsteps of Efraim Longstocking. List, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-471-78097-1 .
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| SURNAME | Pettersson, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pettersson, Carl Emil (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish navigator and emigrant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sollentuna near Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1937 |
| Place of death | Australia |