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machinist, in which capacity he has served in the 

 Norwegian Navy for several years. Is married and has 

 children. 



Frederik Hjalinar Johansen, Lieutenant in the Re- 

 serve, was born at Skien in 1867, and matriculated at the 

 University in 1886. In 1891-92 he went to the Military 

 School and became a supernumerary officer. He was so 

 eager to take part in the expedition that, as no other 

 post could be found for him, he accepted that of stoker. 



Peter Leonard ffenriksen, harpooner, was born in 

 Balsfjord, near Tromso, in 1859. From childhood he 

 has been a sailor, and from fourteen years old has gone 

 voyages to the Arctic Sea as harpooner and skipper. In 

 1888 he was shipwrecked off Novaya Zemlya in the 

 sloop Enigheden, from Christiansund. He is married 

 and has four children. 



Bernhard Nordahl was born in Christiania in 1862. 

 At the age of fourteen he entered the Navy and 

 advanced to be a gunner. Subsequently he has done a 

 little of everything, and among other things has worked 

 as an electrical engineer. He had charge of the dynamo 

 and electric installation on board, acted, moreover, as 

 stoker, and for a time assisted in the meteorological 

 observations. He is married and has five children. 



Ivar Otto Iro~ens Mogstad was born at Aure in 



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Nordmore in 1856. In 1877 passed his examination as 

 first assistant, and from 1882 onwards was one of the 

 head keepers at the Gaustad Lunatic Asylum. 



