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Nathorst visited Spitsbergen in 1870 and participated in 1882-83 in the 2nd Dickson Expedition (" Den andra Dicksonska Expeditionen till Grönland ") led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.
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Nathorst ’ s interest in geology was awoken by Charles Lyell ’ s ‘’ Principles of Geology ‘’ and, at the age of 21, Nathorst visited Lyell in England in 1872.
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On Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Nathorst Land and Nathorstbreen are named after him.
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The following year ( 1899 ), Nathorst led an expedition to Greenland.
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Studies in the 1880s by A. G. Nathorst and Joseph F. James comparing ' fucoids ' to modern traces made it increasingly clear that most of the specimens identified as fossil fucoids were animal trails and burrows.
The first attempt at creating a permanent settlement was carried out by Sweden's Alfred Gabriel Nathorst.
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Schei and later Nathorst described the Paleocene-Eocene ( ca.
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst ( November 7, 1850 – January 20, 1921 ) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist and palaeobotanist.
Nathorst was born in Väderbrunn outside Nyköping and died in Stockholm.
Nathorst was employed at the Geological Survey of Sweden in 1873-84.
Starting with macrofossil deposited in glacial clay found in Scania in 1871, Nathorst investigated postglacial development in flora and vegetation.
Nathorst had a scientific dispute with Eugen Warming over the history of the flora of Greenland.
Warming adhered to the hypothesis that part of the flora had survived the last glaciation-the nunatak hypothesis, while Nathorst advocated the view that the entire flora had immigrated anew after the glaciation-the tabula rasa hypothesis.
Nathorst Land in East Central Greenland is named after him.
Following the publication of this paper, Warming entered a dispute with A. G. Nathorst over the history of the flora of Greenland.
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* In 1870, he visited Greenland and in 1871 went again to Spitsbergen and stayed there all winter, nearly starving to death.
The American industrialist John Munroe Longyear visited Spitsbergen as a tourist in 1901, where he met with an expedition prospecting for coal.
In 1854 he was elected Travelling Fellow of Magdalene College, and subsequently visited many parts of the world, including Lapland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, the West Indies and North America.
At the end of July 1941, Vian's Force visited Spitsbergen to ascertain the situation.
The ship sailed up the west coast of the main island of the Spitsbergen group, and visited Adventfjorden and Smeerenburg in the north.
He funded expeditions to the Spitsbergen region of the Arctic and Africa, and visited Egypt and Sudan.
The OUMC also has a long history of exploratory mountaineering in the greater ranges, with expeditions having visited and made first ascents of peaks in Greenland, Spitsbergen, Peru, Wakhan, Kishtwar, the Karakorum and the Himalayas, among others.
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On 25 December 1958, he became the first pope since 1870 to make pastoral visits in his Diocese of Rome, when he visited children infected with polio at the Bambino Gesù Hospital and then visited Santo Spirito Hospital.
Royal Navy representatives visited Fiume for a demonstration in late 1869, and in 1870 a batch of torpedoes was ordered.
On 17 April 1870 Richard Wagner visited Bayreuth, because he had read about the Margrave Opera House, whose great stage seemed fitting for his works.
In 1866 Daubigny visited England, eventually returning because of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870.
He briefly visited Tasmania in 1870 at the request of the Argus to experience at first hand the settings of articles he was writing on the convict period.
The hall was scheduled to be completed by Christmas Day 1870 and the Queen visited a few days beforehand to inspect.
He visited Singapore and Java in 1870 and British India during 1870 – 1872 to see the administration of British colonies.
In 1870 he visited the United States, where ( with the exception of a visit to London in 1872 ) he remained till his death.
This according to Victor Guérin, who visited the place in the 1870 ´ s, and described it.
In January 1870, in order to gain support for the treaty, President Grant visited Sen. Sumner's Washington home and mistakenly believed that Sumner had given consent for the treaty.
In April 1870, Wagner and his wife Cosima visited Bayreuth.
American poet Henry Longfellow visited the school in 1868, Prince and Princess Christian on speech-day in 1870 and The Duke and Duchess of Teck visited in 1891 with their daughter, Princess May ( later Queen Mary ).
By the time Newcomb visited Paris, France in 1870, he was already aware that the table of lunar positions calculated by Peter Andreas Hansen was in error.
In 1870, Red Cloud visited Washington D. C., and met with Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ely S. Parker ( a Seneca and U. S. Army General ) and President Ulysses S. Grant.
After de Castanhoso, over 300 years passed until the next European, Gerhard Rohlfs, visited Lalibela at some time between 1865 and 1870.
Although trappers and prospectors who visited the Yellowstone region had knowledge of the canyon, the first significant descriptions were publicized after the Cook – Folsom – Peterson Expedition of 1869 and the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition of 1870.
In 1768, the eastern islands were visited by French explorer Bougainville, who named them the Navigator Islands, a name used by missionaries until about 1845 and in official European dispatches until about 1870.
In 1870 he visited the Baraba steppe and in 1878 the Ferghana valley.
He finally returned to England in 1868, and in 1870 – 2 published a collection of sketches and descriptions of buildings which he had visited during his travels, under the title of The Auto-Biography of an Octogenarian Architect.
When George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke visited the islands with Dr. George Henry Kingsley in 1870, he was strickened by his wife's charm and beauty and referred the king and queen as " Beauty and the Beast.
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