Borchgrevink is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Aage Borchgrevink
Aage Storm Borchgrevink (born 1969) is a Norwegian human rights activist, writer and literary critic. He works at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, where he focuses on the human rights situation in Russia, Chechnya and Georgia.
Career
He was bo ...
, Norwegian writer
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Carsten Borchgrevink
Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (1 December 186421 April 1934) was an Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer and a pioneer of Antarctic travel. He inspired Sir Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and others associated with the Hero ...
, (1864–1934) Anglo-Norwegian explorer
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Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe, (1802–1887), Norwegian priest and politician
See also
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Borchgrevink Glacier
Borchgrevink Glacier () is a large glacier in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land, draining south between Malta Plateau and Daniell Peninsula, and thence projecting into Glacier Strait, Ross Sea, as a floating glacier tongue, the Borchgrevink ...
, a glacier in the polar regions
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Borchgrevink Nunatak
Borchgrevink Nunatak () is a nunatak long which rises to , standing at the south side of the entrance to Richthofen Pass, on the east coast of Graham Land. It was discovered in 1902 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld, ...
, a nunatak
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Borchgrevink Coast
The Borchgrevink Coast is that portion of the coast of Victoria Land between Cape Adare and Cape Washington. The name was recommended by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 after Carsten Borchgrevink, a member of Henrik Johan Bull' ...
, an area in the arctic
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Borchgrevink Canyon
Borchgrevink Canyon () is an undersea canyon on the continental rise east of Iselin Bank in the Ross Sea. It was named in association with Borchgrevink Coast
The Borchgrevink Coast is that portion of the coast of Victoria Land between Cape Adare ...
, an undersea canyon
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Mount Borchgrevink, an arctic mountain
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