Name ANDREASSEN, Edvard Born Hvarnes, Norway, 1872 Died 10 November 1906 Age 33/34 Cemetery Lost at Sea Grave Ref – Register – SPRI Ref: – Edvard was lost when the Fridjof Nansen was wrecked in 1906. He was a sailor.
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Name ANTONISEN, Anton Born Bjørnum Hasle, Norway, 5 April 1888 Died 10 November 1906 Age 18 Cemetery Lost at Sea Grave Ref – Register – SPRI Ref: – Anton was lost when the Fridjof Nansen was wrecked in 1906. He was a sailor. He was not married.
The ashes of Ben Hodges were scattered at Hope Point on 23 November 2017.
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Name HODGES, Ben Born 15 July 1936 Died 20 January 2017 Age 80 The ashes of Ben Hodges were scattered at Hope Point by Gerry Gilham, Station Leader of the BAS team at KEP on 23 November 2017. After a distinguished career with FIDS and BAS, starting in 1960 at Deception Island, Ben was part
Information about the ashes of Henry Worsley, buried at Grytviken December 2017.
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Name: Worsley, Henry Born: 4 October 1960 Died: 24 January 2016 Age: 55 Cemetery: Grytviken Grave Ref: – Register: – SPRI Ref: – Born on 4 October 1960, British adventurer Henry Worsley died in Chile on 24 January 2016 soon after being evacuated from an attempt to cross the Antarctic. His ashes were buried on
Ann spent time at King Edward point from the turn of the century as partner of visiting Yachtsman and later Government Officer Ken Passfield. A popular member of the KEP community, she ran the Post Office and worked hard at early efforts to control the invasive bittercress plant. After she died in the UK on
Many thanks to correspondent Bente for some information from the Norwegian archives about Carl Edvardsen, buried in Ocean Harbour in 1920.
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Wilhelm Filchner, leader of the German expedition that visited South Georgia with the Deutschland in 1911, describes the Grytviken Cemetery and the circumstances of the loss of Walter Slossarczyk in his book To the Sixth Continent.
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Information in the book Pesca by Ian Hart, about Julius Isaksen, the first Norwegian to be buried in the cemetery at Grytviken, in 1906. There are a couple of unmarked graves in the area of the first few graves in the cemetery, so he is most likley buried in grave B6 or B10.
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