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( dr ´s ) (KEY) or Edrisi ( –) (KEY) , b. 1099?, d. after 1154, Arab geographer, b. Ceuta. He traveled in Europe, Asia Minor, and Mediterranean la...
(ô´t sv r´dr p) (KEY) , 1855–1930, Norwegian arctic explorer. A companion of Fridtjof Nansen on the voyage across Greenland in 1888 and on Nanse...
(t d ´lä) (KEY) , d.1173, rabbi considered the first European to approach the borders of China, b. Tudela, Spain. He traveled (1159–73) through It...
1882–1958, Australian antarctic explorer and geologist, b. England. His first geographical expedition was to the New Hebrides Islands as a geologist...
(skôrz´b ) (KEY) , 1789–1857, English arctic explorer and scientist. He made yearly voyages (1803–22) to Greenland, at first on his father’s w...
(ou´g st h n´r kh p ´t rmän) (KEY) , 1822–78, German geographer, an authority on the geography of Africa and the Arctic. He had (1847–54) a ca...