| LC control no. | n 79054970 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 |
| Variant(s) | Stef, 1879-1962 Vilhjálmur Stefánsson, 1879-1962 Stephenson, William, 1879-1962 Stephenson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 Stephenson, Villi, 1879-1962 Stefansson, Villi, 1879-1962 |
| Located | Canada |
| Birth date | 1879-11-03 |
| Death date | 1962-08-26 |
| Place of birth | Iceland |
| Field of activity | Discoveries in geography Anthropology |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Explorers Anthropologists |
| Found in | Author's Adventures in error, 1936. Hunt, W.R. Stef, 1968: t.p. (Stef; Vilhjalmur Stefansson) Hetjuleiðir og landafundir, 1962: t.p. (Vilhjálmur Stefánsson) Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist biography, via WWW, Aug. 20, 2010 (Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Nov. 3, 1879-Aug. 26, 1962); anthropologist, explorer, book collector, and writer, authority on polar regions; born in the Icelandic Canadian settlement of Arnes on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg; was christened William Stephenson, though his Icelandic-speaking family always called him Vilhjalmur or Villi. He formally adopted the Icelandic form of his name when he was 20 years old) <http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/vilhjalmurstefansson.html> Levy,Buddy. Empire of ice and stone, 2022 : (heading: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, leader of the 1913 Canadian Arctic Expdition which became icebound) |
| Associated language | ice eng |
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