Petter Sørlle (February 16, 1884 – May 29, 1933) was a Norwegian whaling captain and inventor. Petter Martin Mattias Koch Sørlle was born at Tune (now...
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Recharted in 1933 by DI personnel on the Discovery II and named for Captain Petter Sørlle, Norwegian whaler who made a running survey of the South Orkney Islands...
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Committee for Petter Sørlle (1884–1922), a Norwegian whaling captain and inventor who, in 1922, took out a patent for his whaling slipway. Sørlle was the first...
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Sten ("three stones") on Captain Petter Sørlle's chart resulting from his 1912-13 survey. Later renamed for Sørlle by DI personnel on the Discovery II...
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charted and named "Munken" (The Monk) by Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle in 1912–13. The name approved is an anglicized form of the earlier Norwegian...
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Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. It was charted in 1912-13 by Petter Sørlle, a Norwegian whaling captain and named after the Tønsberg Hvalfangeri...
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Island in the South Orkney Islands. It was charted and named on a map by Petter Sørlle, a Norwegian whaler who made a running survey of the South Orkney Islands...
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Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was named by the Norwegian whaler Petter Sørlle (1884–1933) after his wife, Signy Therese. The island is about 6.5 km...
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Press. p. 122. ISBN 9780821443606. Retrieved 12 June 2024. In 1925, [Petter] Sørlle outfitted the Lancing with a stern slipway - a large trapdoor in the...
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with capacity for 8 people. The main building, Sørlle House (named after the whaling captain Petter Sørlle, who himself named Signy Island), provides living...
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