George Baker Leavitt, Sr.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

Capt. George Baker Leavitt, Sr. (1860–1925) was a Maine-born mariner who captained several whaling vessels out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The steam whalers captained by Leavitt were active in the whaling fishery off the Alaska North Slope, where Leavitt met and married an Inuk woman. The mariner befriended many early Arctic explorers, whom he replenished with supplies and provided transportation to, as well as assisted in Arctic exploration. Leavitt Island in Harrison Bay is named for the early New England whaling captain.