1921 Oxford University Spitsbergen expedition

Scientific exploration of Spitsbergen, Norway The 1921 Oxford University Spitsbergen expedition took place over the period June–August 1921 and was led by F.C.R. Jourdain (1865–1940). Charles Elton's Accounts of Expeditions from Oxford to the Arctic in the 1920s June 2015 Arctic 68 2 273 10.14430/arctic4494 Caroline Pond http://www.rpgroup.caltech.edu/aph150_human_impacts/assets/pdfs/Pond_2015.pdf 15 December 2024 Science The initial ornithological focus "was rapidly enlarged to embrace a range of interest, so diverse that the party had to be organized in two independent sections".The Topographical Work of the Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen (1921) The Geographical Journal 15 December 2024 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1780537 10.2307/1780538 1922 R.A. Frazer 1780538 Although over 30 articles arising from the expedition had been published by 1924 and a compilation volume bringing together those papers had also been published,Spitzbergen Papers. Vol. I Oxford University Press https://books.google.com/books?id=wd4OAQAAIAAJ 15 December 2024 Francis Charles Robert Jourdain 1925 a full and detailed account of the expedition was not made available until almost 60 years later by which time the data and material from the expedition had led to additional publications. The Oxford University expedition to Spitsbergen 1921: an account, done in 1978-83 https://brage.npolar.no/npolar-xmlui/handle/11250/218913?show=full Charles Sutherland Elton 245 1983 15 December 2024 Records of the Oxford University Expedition to Spitzbergen (Svalbard) 1921 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/abs/records-of-the-oxford-university-expedition-to-spitzbergen-svalbard-1921/8662FC69FCC2BA64FB1EF10D04C2C95E 15 December 2024 G. C. L. Bertram Polar Record 22 136 January 1984 83–84 10.1017/S0032247400004848 subscription Expedition members Apart from the leader, Jourdain, other members included: Charles Sutherland Elton (1900–1991), aged 21 at the time of the expedition, later becoming "a towering figure in the history of animal ecology" and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.Southwood R. Richard Southwood Clarke J. R. 10.1098/rsbm.1999.0010 free Charles Sutherland Elton. 29 March 1900 – 1 May 1991: Elected F.R.S. 1953 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 45 129 1999 George Binney (1900–1972), aged 21 at the time of the expedition, later to become Sir Frederick George Binney, DSO. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1795866 Obituary: Sir George Binney, DSO Geographical Journal 139 1 February 1973 199–201 1795866 Julian Huxley (1887–1975), aged 35 at the time of the expedition, later to become Sir Julian Huxley and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work on evolutionary biology.https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/10085 Bodleian Library, Oxford Papers of Julian Sorell Huxley 15 December 2024 Alexander Carr-Saunders (1886–1966), aged 35 at the time of the expedition, later to become Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders, KBE, FBA and for 20 years was the director of the London School of Economics. https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1967_files/AJ%201967%20184-192%20In%20Memoriam.pdf Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders (1886-1966) Alpine Journal 1967 Lord Robert Chorley 0065-6569 #72 315 184–187 12 December 2024 Seton Gordon (1886–1977), aged 35 at the time of the expedition, who authored multiple books about the wildlife and scenery of Scotland as well as the book "Amid Snowy Wastes - Wild Life On The Spitsberg Archipelago" which provides his narrative of the 1921 expedition.Amid Snowy Wastes - Wild Life On The Spitsberg Archipelago Cassell & Co Ltd 1922 Seton Gordon https://books.google.com/books?id=VsIEAAAAMAAJ 15 December 2024 Tom Longstaff (1875–1964), aged 46 at the time of the expedition, a member of the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition. His autobiography includes a chapter about the Spitsbergen expedition. This My Voyage 1951 Tom Longstaff John Murray 237–260 15 December 2024 https://books.google.com/books?id=CMAzAAAAIAAJ Noel Odell (1890–1987), aged 31 at the time of the expedition, he was the last person to see Mallory and Irvine before they disappeared on the upper slopes of Everest during the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition. V. S. Summerhayes (1897–1974), aged 24 at the time of the expedition, later in charge of the orchid herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, an international figure in the study of orchids and awarded an OBE in 1950."Mr V. S. Summerhayes." Times [London, England] 7 Jan. 1975: 14. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 3 July 2013. Robert Alexander Frazer (1891–1959), aged 30 at the time of the expedition, in 1946 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work on aeronautics. Robert Alexander Frazer. 1891-1959 https://www.jstor.org/stable/769397 Alfred G. Pugsley Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 10.1098/rsbm.1961.0006 free 7 November 1961 75–84 769397 15 December 2024 subscription James Douglas Brown (1899–1971), aged 22 at the time of the expedition, OBE. Science at Oxford, 1914-1939: Transforming an Arts University Jack Morrell Zoology https://academic.oup.com/book/11690/chapter/160648613 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206576.003.0008 268–304 1997 978-0-19-820657-6 15 December 2024 Ralph Walter Segnit (1892–1965), aged 29 at the time of the expedition, later president of the Royal Society of South Australia (1940) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/129707572 Pen Portraits of People - scientist and public servant Adelaide News 6 22 September 1926 15 December 2024 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131511103?searchTerm=%22ralph%20segnit%22%20-edgar Adelaide News 6 12 October 1939 Curious Points About S.A. in Geologist's Bulletin 15 December 2024 George Slater (1874–1956), aged 47 at the time of the expedition. Unravelling the Glacial Geology of the Ipswich area – the work of Slater and Boswell Mottram Howard B. https://www.suffolkbis.org.uk/publications/tsns/50/11 Transactions of the Suffolk Naturalists' Society 69–79 50 2014 15 December 2024 Arthur Hamilton Paget Wilkes (1898–1955), aged 23 at the time of the expedition, the son of Alpheus Paget Wilkes, he later became the father of Michael Paget-Wilkes.https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG126932 15 December 2024 Rev. A H Paget-Wilkes British Museum References Category:Arctic expeditions Category:Spitsbergen Category:Islands of Svalbard Category:Expeditions from the United Kingdom Category:1921 in the United Kingdom Category:1921 in science