Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff

The other children included: Alfred; Francis; Olav (1917–2002); Karl (1916-1987); Frits (1915-1981); Ingvar (1920–1995), also known as Ingvald; Daniel (1931-1987); and Agnes (1933-2014).

The children, three of whom died at an early age, were the last generation who lived on Lille Ekkerøy in Vadsø Municipality.

As part of their subsistence tactics, they collected driftwood on the beach and picked cloudberries in the fields.

Aksel married Anne Lise and, before their divorce, had a son called Arvid Sigfred Bogdanoff.

In 1953, when Aksel and Ingvald Bogdanoff were out inspecting their salmon nets in the Lille Ekkeroy area, they encountered a polar bear which is believed to have come on an ice-floe from Svalbard.