Peter Brandal

Peter Andreas Severinsson Brandal (21 December 1870 – 23 March 1933) was a Norwegian sealer and businessman.

Born in Brandal, he started working as a fisher after confirmation. He bought his first vessel in 1891. Eight years later it participated in its first Arctic Ocean sealing expedition. Brandal participated in a fur hunting expedition to Greenland in 1901. His fleet gradually increased, with him focusing on Arctic Ocean sealing. He stopped active seamanship in 1911 and became a manager for the fleet.^[1]

Brandal bought the mining claims and land in Kongsfjorden in Svalbard in 1916 for 250,000 Norwegian krone.^[2] He established Kings Bay Kull Comp that year and started mining that summer. The following year his company established Ny-Ålesund, which retained the name Brandal City until the early 1920. Later M. Knutsen, Trygve Klausen and Tryge Jervell joined Brandal as co-owners of the company.^[3]

References

1. Hanoa: 11
2. Hanoa: 10
3. Hanoa: 12

Bibliography

• Hanoa, Rolf (1993). Kings Bay Kull Comp. A/S 1917–1992 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Schibsted. ISBN 82-516-1448-1.