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Carl Anton Larsen (1860 – 1924) was a
Norwegian mariner and
Antarctic explorer,
and the founder of
Grytviken,
South Georgia. The
Larsen Ice Shelf is named after him.
Larsen left school at the age of 14 to join his father at sea, and by the time he was 20 he'd earned his master's license. By 1895 was captain of a whaler. Larsen led an expedition to
Antarctica, in command of the
Jason, from 1892 through 1894. Later he captained the ship
Antarctic, part of the
Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04. During this mission some of his crew over-wintered for 10 months at
Snow Hill Island, and after his ship was crushed by ice and sank, he and his crew spent a winter (1903) on
Paulet Island, surviving on penguins and seals before being rescued by the Argentine corvette
Uruguay.
In 1904 with Argentine, Norwegian and British capital he founded the first Antarctic whaling corporation, the
Compañía Argentina de Pesca, and in 1910, he adopted British citizenship along with his family.
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