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Record #157894:

Harpoon guns, the lost Greenland settlement, and penal colonies: George Manby's Arctic obsessions / William Barr.

Title: Harpoon guns, the lost Greenland settlement, and penal colonies: George Manby's Arctic obsessions / William Barr.
Author(s): Barr, William.
Date: 2001.
In: Polar Record. (2001.), Vol. 37(203) (2001)
Abstract: Profile of inventor George William Manby, who travelled once to the Arctic with William Scoresby in 1821, in abortive attempt to try out his new whaling harpoons. For remainder of his life remained convinced that Norse colonies still survived and that Britain should colonize East Greenland as penal colony.
Notes:

Polar Record. Vol. 37(203) :291-314 (2001).

Keywords: 92 -- Biographies: Manby, George William.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1821 Scoresby.
X -- Biographies and obituaries.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*38) -- Greenland.
SPRI record no.: 157894

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