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Record #161187:

The politics of naming: contested observations and the shaping of geographical knowledge / Urban Wråkberg.

Title: The politics of naming: contested observations and the shaping of geographical knowledge / Urban Wråkberg.
Author(s): Wråkberg, Urban.
Date: 2002.
Publisher: Canton, MA: Science History Publications
In: Narrating the Arctic : a cultural history of Nordic scientific practices. (2002.),
Abstract: Discusses history of cartography of European Arctic, focusing on exploration of eastern Svalbard, especially Kong Karls Land.
Notes:

In: Narrating the Arctic : a cultural history of Nordic scientific practices / Michael Trevor Bravo, Sverker Sörlin, eds.

Keywords: 528.9(091) -- History of cartography.
801.311 -- Place-names.
91(091) -- Exploration, history.
S -- Literature and Language.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*32) -- Svalbard.
(*322) -- Kong Karls Land.
SPRI record no.: 161187

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