He was an ethnic Icelander (Norse) from Manitoba who emigrated to the 
northeastern U.S.A. whence he did his travels.

William


Juergen Botz wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 23:15 -0700, Ron Hoggan wrote:
>   
>> Hi Geoff, 
>> You said:
>>     
>>> It's been pointed out:-
>>>  
>>> http://tinyurl.com/5pc9kj
>>>       
>> They are identifying Stefansson as Icelandic. He was from the Winnipeg area
>>     
>  ~~~~~
>
> This is a /Wikipedia/ article... you can fix the error.
> "They" is us.
>
> :j
>
>
>