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Name: LANGAAS, Gunnar Johanssen Born: Norway, 8 June 1908 Died: 19 December 1959 Age: 51 Cemetery: Grytviken Grave Ref: E11 Register: 189 SPRI Ref: 1228/17/141 The magistrate’s records at SPRI tell us that Langaas was first mate of the catcher ‘R-5’. He was struck by a whale fluke whilst securing a whale alongside the catcher  […]

Name: DAVIDSEN, Knut Bjarne Born: Norway, 10 June 1924 Died: 6 December 1957 Age: 33 Cemetery: Grytviken Grave Ref: E10 Register: 185 The small bronze birds were sent by a relative in the 1990s.

Name: HOLTHE, Odd Born: Norway, 26 December 1911 Died: 23 September 1957 Age: 34 Cemetery: Grytviken Grave Ref: E9 Register: 182

Name: HALVORSEN, Simon Born: 30 June 1899 Died: 13 October 1956 Age: 57 Cemetery: Grytviken Grave Ref: E8 Register: 181

Name: ENGEBRETSEN, Petter Olaus Born: Norway, 11 November 1899 Died: 16 March 1949 Age: 49 Cemetery: Grytviken Grave Ref: E7 Register: 161

Name: SALVINI, Luis Born: Argentina, 24 September 1914 Died: 9 October 1946 Age: 32 Cemetery: Grytviken Grave Ref: E6 Register: 151

Name: PERAK, Miguel Bartolo Born: Argentina, 12 August 1925 Died: 31 March 1946 Age: 22 Cemetery: Grytviken Grave Ref: E5 Register: 149

Name: HEED, Karl Gustavsen Born: Norway, 19 November 1902 Died: 20 March 1945 Age: 42 Cemetery: Grytviken Grave Ref: E4 Register: 147 The Register of Deaths tells us that Heed was a Meteorological Observer. It also gives him an alternative name ‘Carlos Gustavo’. As he was a meteorologist, he will have been working at the

Name: ANDERSEN, Karl M. Born: Norway, 30 July 1894 Died: 2 April 1941 Age: 46 Cemetery: Grytviken Grave Ref: E3 Register: 141

Name: OLSEN, Frank Born: Norway, 3 September 1922 Died: 8 March 1940 Age: 17 Cemetery: Grytviken Grave Ref: E2 Register: 138