Name KLEVJER, Oddmund Kristian
Born Norway, 10 October 1939
Died 14 March 1959
Age 19
Cemetery Husvik
Grave Ref 34
Register of Deaths 188
Husvik Grave Book Page 11
SPRI Ref 1228/17/141;D

The magistrate's records at SPRI tell us he was an AB (able bodied seaman) and died of misadventure. He fell overboard while grappling buoy rope on the whale catcher 'Busen 6'. At the time the vessel was 105 miles at 74 degrees from Cape Saunders.

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There is a photograph in Tom Schandy's book 'Syg Georgia - kongenes øy ISBN 8292069100' of 2001 showing relatives visiting Oddmund's grave in 1999. We are told he drowned.