Gunnerius Ingvald Isachsen

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Gunnar Isachsen (1921)

Gunnerius Ingvald Isachsen (also Gunnar Isachsen ; born October 3, 1868 in Drøbak , † December 19, 1939 in Asker ) was a Norwegian officer and polar explorer.

Life

Gunnar Isachsen and Sverre Hassel during the second Fram expedition

After completing his training with the Norwegian military and taking courses in naval research at the military academy, he took part as a topographer on the second Fram expedition under Otto Sverdrup from 1898 to 1902 and discovered the Amund-Ringnes- Island and other previously unknown islands in northern Canada .

From 1903 to 1905 he took part in French campaigns in Algeria. The married soldier and father of five children led two expeditions to Spitsbergen supported by Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1906 and 1907 . Further expeditions took him again to Spitzbergen in 1909 and 1910, where he carried out topographical and bathymetric work. As a result of this Spitsbergen trips he founded the systematic research into and over the archipelago and was the technical delegate of the Norwegian Government at the conclusion of Spitsbergen Treaty and the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 .

In 1923 he was appointed director of the Norwegian Maritime Museum ( Norsk Sjøfartsmuseum ) in Oslo. Then he was, among other things, leader of an expedition to East Greenland 1923-1924 and to the Antarctic 1930-1931 (fourth Norvegia expedition). He was awarded several Norwegian and international medals, including the St. Olav Order and the Kongens fortjenstmedalje (German: Royal Medal of Merit) in gold.

The Canadian weather station Isachsen on Ellef-Ringnes Island is named after him. In the Antarctic, the 3425 m high Isachsenfjella and Ingvaldnuten bears his name. On Spitsbergen, the 681 m high Isachsenfjellet on the island of Prins Karls Forland and the Isachsenfonna glacier in Haakon VII Land remind of him.

Works (excerpt)

  • Expédition Isachsen au Spitsberg 1909–1910. Résultats scientifiques , 3 volumes, 1911–1916
  • Exploration du nord-oust du Spitsberg, company sous les auspices SAS le Prince de Monaco par la Mission Isachsen , 5 volumes, 1912–1914
  • Fra Ishavet , 1919
  • Spitsbergen - Norge , 1921
  • Norske fangstmænds færder til Grønland , 1922
  • Grønland og Grønlandsisen , 1925
  • Jorden rounds efter blåhvalen , 1927
  • En ishavsskippers saga , 1928
  • Ishavsfangsten from Sandefjord , 1932
  • "Norvegia" rounds off Sydpollandet. Norvegia-ekspedisjonen 1930–1931 , 1934
  • Norsk skibsfart på Brasil i feberårene 1891–1893 , 1937

literature

  • Ole R. Thoresen: Gunnar Isachsen in memoriam . In: Norwegian Maritime Museum 1914–1939 (1940)
  • Adolf Hoel: Gunnar Isachsen . In: Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 8, 1940, p, 1-5

Web links

Commons : Gunnar Isachsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Susan Barr: Gunnar Isachsen . In: Norsk biografisk leksikon . (Norwegian, nbl.snl.no [accessed June 19, 2011]).
  • Gunnar Isachsen at polarhistorie.no

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia . Volume 1, A – M. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara CA 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 209 ( books.google.com ).
  2. ^ Adolf Hoel : The Norwegian Svalbard Expeditions 1906-1926 . (PDF; 4.7 MB). Resultater av de Norske statsunderstøttede Spitsbergenekspedisjoner (= Skrifter om Svalbard og Ishavet No. 1, 1929)
personal data
SURNAME Isachsen, Gunnerius Ingvald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isachsen, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Drøbak
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1939
Place of death Asker