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(p ´ r) (KEY) , 1842–1915, Austrian explorer and painter. While on an expedition (1872–74) to navigate the Northeast Passage with Karl Weyprecht,...
(ny k l ´ m kh ´l v ch p rzh väl´sk ) (KEY) , 1839–88, Russian geographer and explorer in central and E Asia. He made five major expeditions—o...
1777–1856, British arctic explorer and rear admiral. In 1818 he went in search of the Northwest Passage but turned back after exploring Baffin Bay. ...
(pä´ l däl pôt´ts t skän l´l ) (KEY) , 1397–1482, Italian cosmographer and mathematician. A physician by training, he was also known as Pau...
1876–1947, American geographer, b. Galesburg, Ill., grad. Beloit College, 1897, M.A. Harvard, 1902, Ph.D. Yale, 1909. He taught at Euphrates College...
1849–1934, American historian and educator, b. Bristol, R.I.; brother of Dana Carleton Munro. From 1870 to 1871 he was a master at De Veaux College,...