Charles Rabot
Charles Rabot (born June 26, 1856 in Nevers , † February 1, 1944 in Martigné-Ferchaud ) was a French geographer , glaciologist , traveler, journalist , teacher , translator , mountaineer and researcher. In 1883 he was the first to climb Kebnekaise , Sweden's highest mountain at 2,097 meters.
Rabot led his first expedition to Spitzbergen in 1882 with the ship Petit Paris . Ten years later, he took the La Mancha ship on a mapping mission and redrawn the map of the Svartisen Glacier . He crossed Spitzbergen from west to east and examined Prins Karls Forland , a strikingly elongated island on the west coast of the Svalbard Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, which today belongs to Norway .
As a passionate ethnographer, Rabot studied the arctic inhabitants of the east and west of the Urals: the Chuvash , the Mari , the Komi- speaking Permyak and Syrian , the Khanty (Ostiaks) and the Samoyed peoples . He wrote many articles and books on Arctic expeditions and translated scientific works into French.
The French research station in Ny-Ålesund was named after Rabot , as was a type of plankton from the waters off Svalbard ( Eurytemora raboti ). A Norwegian and a Swedish glacier as well as a glacier in the Ross side area also bear his name. The Rabot Island was in 1903 by Jean-Baptiste Charcot , head of the French Antarctic Expedition , named after him.
Web links
- Rabot Island on geographic.org
- Amédée Pierre Léonard Bienaimé: The La Manche's Journey to Jan Mayen and Svalbard (French)
- Observations from Rabot on the Svartisen Glacier
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| SURNAME | Rabot, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French geographer, glaciologist, traveler, journalist, teacher, translator, climber and researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nevers |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1944 |
| Place of death | Martigné-Ferchaud |