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Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Icelandic: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson) (November 3, 1879 – August 26, 1962) was an Icelandic American Arctic explorer and ethnologist. He was born in Manitoba, Canada, and died at the age of 82.

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Canadian-born explorer (1879–1962)

Born 1879
Died 1962

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  • Cover of: Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic
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  • Cover of: The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic expedition of the American museum: preliminary ethnological report
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  • Cover of: Northwest to Fortune: The Search of Western Man for a Commercially Practical Route to the Far East
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Canadian-born explorer (1879–1962)

Born 1879
Died 1962

Subjects

Eskimos, Social life and customs, Description and travel, Inuit, History, Meat, Pemmican, Discovery and exploration, Nutrition, Explorers, Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918), Discoveries in geography, Religion, Travel, Truth, Arctic regions, Cancer, Commerce, Diet, Etiology, Geography, Geopolitics, Hunting, Missions, Neoplasms

Places

Arctic regions, Canada, Iceland, Arctic Regions, Greenland, Northwest Territories, Wrangel Island (Russia), Alaska, Arctique, Australia, Kazakhstan, North America, Northern Canada, Northwest Passage, Polar regions, Russia, Siberia (Russia), Soviet Union, Vermont

People

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962), Beatty Balestier, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Horatio Richmond Marsh (1874-1948), John Rae (1813-1893)

Time

1689-1801, 1918-

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
February 8, 2020 Edited by mountainaxe1 Edited without comment.
February 8, 2020 Edited by mountainaxe1 Added new photo
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import