From Bo'ness to Svalbard: the coal mining ambitions of the Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate

Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Stone, Phil
Aspen, Peder
Date published
2024
Abstract
The Scottish Polar explorer William Speirs Bruce (1867-1921) is best remembered for his leadership of the 1902-1904 Scottish National Antartic Expedition. Though the celebrity is well-deserved, a much greater proportion of Bruce's career was dedicated to the Arctic rather than the Antartic, and particularly to Prince Charles Foreland and Spitsbergen, the western islands of the Svalbard archipelago (Speak 2003; Williams and Dudeney, 2018).
Journal title
The Edinburgh Geologist: Magazine of the Edinburgh Geological Society
Issue
76
Publisher
Edinburgh Geological Society
ISSN
0265-7244
Rights statement
In Copyright
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