Sigurd Risting
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Sigurd Risting was born in Sunnfjord in Norway. He was studying at Nordfjords amtskole and Sogndals Folkehøgskule and examined at Stord lærarskule 1889. He was the second teacher 1893 and principal 1896 at Skiringssals ungdomsskule.
Later Sigurd Risting started the interest of whaling and was writing the history of and statistics about modern whaling.
1922 he was writing the first Norwegian history about whaling; "Av Hvalfangstens Historie" (the History of Whaling) - Publikation Nr 2 Fra kommandør Chr. Christensens Hvalfangstmuseum i Sandefjord, collecting 20 years of experiences and statistics of whaling. Since 1903 he had compiled annual reviews, and in June 1913 he joined the staff of the newally started periodical "Norsk Hvalfangst-Tidende" (the Norwegian Whaling Gazette) for which he later (1922–1935) became the editor. In 1930 Risting was creating the International Whaling Statistics and in the first numbers of the periodical he was collecting from the whole world whaling statistics the way back to 1868.
From 1918 and to the end of his life Sigurd Risting became secretary of Norsk Hvalfangerforening (the Whaling Association of Norway).
Risting Glacier
in South Georgia has got its name from Sigurd Risting.
Writings of Sigurd Risting:
Later Sigurd Risting started the interest of whaling and was writing the history of and statistics about modern whaling.
1922 he was writing the first Norwegian history about whaling; "Av Hvalfangstens Historie" (the History of Whaling) - Publikation Nr 2 Fra kommandør Chr. Christensens Hvalfangstmuseum i Sandefjord, collecting 20 years of experiences and statistics of whaling. Since 1903 he had compiled annual reviews, and in June 1913 he joined the staff of the newally started periodical "Norsk Hvalfangst-Tidende" (the Norwegian Whaling Gazette) for which he later (1922–1935) became the editor. In 1930 Risting was creating the International Whaling Statistics and in the first numbers of the periodical he was collecting from the whole world whaling statistics the way back to 1868.
From 1918 and to the end of his life Sigurd Risting became secretary of Norsk Hvalfangerforening (the Whaling Association of Norway).
Risting Glacier
Risting Glacier
Risting Glacier is a glacier, 4.5 nautical miles long, lying north of Jenkins Glacier and flowing southeast into the head of Drygalski Fjord in the south part of South Georgia...
in South Georgia has got its name from Sigurd Risting.
Writings of Sigurd Risting:
- 1905: Henrik Wergeland, 27 pages
- 1916; Hvalfangerflaaten 1916, 63 pages
- 1922: Av Hvalfangstens Historie, 658 pages
- 1928: Whales and whale foetuses: statistics of catch and measurements collected from the Norwegian whalers' association 1922-25, 122 pages
- 1929: Kaptein C. A. Larsen, 142 pages
- and many, many articles in different periodicals