[Carsten Egeberg]. Antarctic explorer, born in Christiania, Norway, in 1864. His father, observing his roving disposition and love for the sea, sent him on a voyage “before the mast.” This but increased his fondness for exploration and adventure, and, after graduation from Gjerston College, Norway, and several years’ scientific study in Dresden, he went to Australia, where he became connected with the Forestry Department of Queensland. At this time he made the perilous ascent of Mount Lindsay, being the first to achieve this feat. In the fall of 1894 he accompanied the whaler Antarctic upon an exploration of southern polar regions as the representative of the Royal Geographical Society of Victoria. Before undertaking his sledge journey toward the southern pole, he traveled and lectured in the United States.
