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3 unusual facts about Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave


Ivory Gull

The Ivory Gull was initially described by Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave in 1774 as Larus eburneus from a specimen collected on Spitsbergen.

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The museum hosts an exhibition about famous polar expeditions and displays many items, e.g. the balloon gondola from S.A. Andrée's fateful expedition and material from the John Phipps expedition to Svalbard around 1770, as well as several documents that refer to the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen.

Phippsfjellet

The mountain is named after British Arctic explorer and naval officer Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave.


Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby

While Colonial Secretary, he wrote a letter of instructions to William Hobson, in which the government's policy for the sovereignty of New Zealand was set out.

Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave

They sailed beyond Svalbard to the Seven Islands, but were forced back by the ice and returned to Orfordness on 17 September.

Forth and Bargy dialect

Congratulatory address in the dialect of Forth and Bargy, presented to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland the Earl of Mulgrave Constantine Henry Phipps on his visit to Wexford in 1836 taken from the Wexford Independent newspaper of 15 February 1860.

Frederick Richard Say

A series of drawings of writers (Robert Plumer Ward, Thomas Haynes Bayly, Thomas Colley Grattan, Mary Russell Mitford, Constantine Henry Phipps, Edward Bulwer Lytton) was published as engravings in the New Monthly Magazine in 1831.


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