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Borchgrevink, Carsten Egeberg (1864-1934) He was born in
Christiania, Norway in 1864, the son of a Norwegian father,
Henrik Christian Borchgrevink and an English mother, Annie
Ridley. He enrolled as a student at the Royal Forestry School in
Saxony in 1885 and at the age of twenty-four emigrated to
Australia. Initially, he worked on government survey teams in
Queensland and New South Wales before becoming a teacher of
languages and natural science in New South Wales. In 1894
Borchgrevink volunteered as seaman, seal-shooter and naturalist
for the Norwegian sealing and whaling exploration, 1893 - 1895
(leader Henrik Johan Bull), organised to investigate Antarctic
whaling possibilities. The expedition ship the Antarctic managed
to penetrate the ice of the Ross Sea and Borchgrevink was a
member of the party that landed at Possession Island and Cape
Adare in January 1895. This experience led Borchgrevink to visit
England to raise funds to lead an Antarctic expe