Posted by Tom Napier on August 14, 2012 at 13:30:20 user Didymus.
In Reply to: Re: Peter Duck - Reindeer Horns - Chapter II posted by Dan Lind on August 13, 2012 at 19:18:26:
Pure speculation. The ship was a Royal Navy fishery protection vessel which would normally patrol the North Atlantic. The reindeer horns were presumably presented to the captain as a memento of a port visit. If Ransome was vague about the extent of "Lapland" this port could have been Narvik. In real life Lapland has no sea-coast.