Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen

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Photograph of Solveig Jacobsen standing (with her dog) in front of a whale on the Grytviken flensing plan, taken by Magistrate Edward Binnie in 1916

Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen (born 8 October 1913) was the first person born south of the Antarctic Convergence.^[1] Her father Fridthjof Jacobsen (1874-1953) settled in South Georgia in 1904 to become assistant manager, and from 1914 to 1921 manager of the Grytviken whaling station.^[1] Jacobsen and his wife Klara Olette Jacobsen had two of their children born on the island.^[1] The birth was registered by the resident British Stipendiary Magistrate of South Georgia, James Wilson.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Robert K. Headland, The Island of South Georgia, Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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[Headland-1] Robert K. Headland, The Island of South Georgia, Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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