Solveig Gunbjörg Jacobsen

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

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

[edit] See also

• History of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

[edit] References

• Robert K. Headland, The Island of South Georgia, Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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