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    Prof Olaf Holtedahl ForMemRS FRSE (24 June 1885 – 26 August 1975) was a Norwegian geologist (Dr.philos., 1913). He became a senior lecturer at the University...
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  • name Holtedahl Peaks is recommended for the elevations northward of Steinskaret Gap in these mountains. The name is for Professor Olaf Holtedahl, a noted...
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    Graham Land Expedition, 1934–37, and named by John Rymill for Professor Olaf Holtedahl, a Norwegian geologist who conducted geologic research during 1927–28...
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  • (now Oslo, Norway) a son of geologist Olaf Holtedahl (1885–1975) and Tora Gurstad (1889–1980). In 1936, Holtedahl began studying chemistry and zoology...
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    Edward Battersby Bailey 1949 Robert Broom 1950 Norman L. Bowen 1951 Olaf Holtedahl 1952 Herbert Harold Read 1953 Erik Stensiö 1954 Leonard Johnston Wills...
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  • runner (d. 1966) 1884 – Frank Waller, American runner (d. 1941) 1885 – Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist (d. 1975) 1888 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect...
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    1912 by Adolf Hoel who had traversed the glacier in 1909 together with Olaf Holtedahl. List of glaciers in Svalbard "Bjørlykkebreen (Svalbard)". Norwegian...
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    In 1929, Olaf Holtedahl favoured a glacial origin for the strandflat, an idea that was picked up by his son Hans Holtedahl. Hans Holtedahl and E. Larsen...
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  • 1974 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (b. 1902) 1975 – Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1885) 1976 – Lotte Lehmann, German-American...
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  • to Rocky Bay, on the south side of South Georgia. It was mapped by Olaf Holtedahl during his visit to South Georgia in 1927–28, and named by him for Amund...
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