The Belgica & Beyond


amateur translations, scans, & assorted research by m.w.
actively under construction.

WRITTEN FROM THE BELGICA 1897-1899

  1. Racovitza’s cartoons 
  2. Racovitza’s shipboard diary
  3. Racovitza’s letters home
  4. Lecointe’s meeting notes

CORRESPONDENCE

  1. before
  2. after

    NEWS OF THE BELGICA 1896-1900

    1. coverage in the Belgian press, translated
    2. coverage in the British press
    3. coverage in the American press
    4. scientific lectures, translated
    5. list of Expedition publications
      6.        a) Lecointe on Danco’s contributions

    QUELQUES EXPÉDITIONS SUIVANTES

    1. de Gerlache & Charcot (the Français)
    2. de Gerlache & the Duke of Orléans (the Belgica in the Arctic)
    3. the failed Second Belgian Antarctic Expedition (Arctowski & Lecointe)
    4. the successful Second Belgian Antarctic Expedition (Gaston de Gerlache)
    5.  the Royal Belgian Observatory
    6. Georges Lecointe’s 20th Century

      MARRIAGES & OTHER LIFE EVENTS

      1. Lecointe Family
      2. Arctowski
      3. de Gerlache
      4. Racovitza
      5. van Mirlo
      6. van Rysselberghe

      ASSORTED BELGICA RESOURCES

      1. bibliography
      2. associated persons
      3. contemporary photographs


      the sailors of the Belgica performing a “starlight concert” on Sept. 26, 1897, from Johan Koren’s diary

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      To: Roald Amundsen
      From: Georges Lecointe

      from: Uccle, to: Oslo, the 22nd of December, 1901

      Dear Monsieur Amundsen,

          Yesterday, I received the gorgeous album that you had the graciousness to send to me. I thank you with my whole heart.

          I would be very delighted to see you and to spend some time with you.

          If the weather isn’t too bad, we will go for a drive in the automobile. You would find this very amusing; we crush chickens, dogs; we knock men down; and there is no promenade that takes place without a small hitch.

          It would remind you of the Belgica ! ! !

          Until we meet again, my dear Monsieur Amundsen, I cordially shake your hand.

          G. Lecointe


      from: Uccle, to: Christiania, 17 September 1909

      My dear Commander,

          Your editor has sent me an advance copy, in French, of your superb account of your voyage. I take this opportunity to reiterate my warmest congratulations to you on your very wonderful expedition.

          Thank you also for the memories you have kept of our old friendly relations which, I hope, will do nothing but get closer in the future. 

          I read with great pleasure your statements relating to Dr. Cook, expressing the confidence you have in our old comrade for whom, as you know, I also have the warmest affection.

          Please accept, my dear Commander, the expression of my sincerely devoted sentiments.

      G. Lecointe