Gunnar Isachsen
Gunnerius Ingvald Isachsen ( Gunnar Isachsen, born October 3, 1868 in Drøbak, † December 9, 1939 in Oslo) was a Norwegian officer and Arctic explorer.
Life
After he had completed his education at the Norwegian military and was assigned to the Military Academy courses in marine research, he took from 1898 to 1902 as a topographer at the second expedition of the Fram under Otto Sverdrup part and discovered on April 20, 1900, the Amund - Ringnes island and other previously unknown islands in northern Canada.
From 1903 to 1905 he participated in the French campaigns in Algeria. The married soldier and father of five children, also adopted in 1906 in an expedition to Spitsbergen in part, which was conducted on behalf of Prince Albert I of Monaco. Other expeditions in the years 1906-1910 led him again to Spitzbergen, where he was again as topographer maps and bathymetric studies conducted. In the wake of these Spitzbergen trips he founded the systematic research in and about this island group and was the technical delegate of the Norwegian Government at the conclusion of the Spitsbergen Treaty and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
In 1923 he was appointed director of the Norwegian Maritime Museum (Norsk Maritime Museum ) in Oslo. After that, he served as head of an expedition to East Greenland 1923-1924 and around the South Pole from 1930 to 1931. He has won several Norwegian and international medals, including the St. Olav Medal and the Kongens fortjenstmedalje ( to German: Royal Medal of Merit ) in gold.
According to him, now unmanned, Canadian Isachsen weather station is named on the Ellef - Ringnes Island.
Works (excerpt)
- Isachsen, G. ( 1907). Astronomical observations and geodetical. Report of the second Norwegian Arctic Expedition in the ' Fram ', no = 5 vol. 2 Kristiania: A.W. Brøgger.
- Isachsen, G. (1913). Exploration du Nord -Ouest du sous les entreprise Spitsberg AUSP. de s.a.c. le Prince de Monaco par la Commission Isachsen 2 Description du champ dóperation. Monaco: Impr de Monaco.