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Whaler's cross on Deception Island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2004

Susan Barr ,
Rod Downie  and
Rodolfo Sánchez
Susan Barr
Affiliation:
Directorate for Cultural Heritage, PB 8196 Dep, N-0034 Oslo, Norway
Rod Downie
Affiliation:
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET
Rodolfo Sánchez
Affiliation:
Dirección Nacional del Antártico, Cerrito 1248, C1010AAZ, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Abstract

The cemetery at Whalers Bay, Deception Island, was the largest in the Antarctic prior to being partially buried and partially washed away during a volcanic eruption in 1969. In 2002 a wooden cross at Argentina's Decepción Station was identified as being that of the Norwegian whaler Peder Knapstad. It was removed, secured in a base, and re-erected at Whalers Bay.

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Polar Record , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 69 - 70
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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