Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
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Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the noble Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a frihe
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld by Axel Jungstedt 1902
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld with the Vega Georg von Rosen (1886)
Vega Expedition
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The Vega Expedition of 1878–1880, named after the SS Vega and under the leadership of Finland-Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, was the first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeas
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
…to move to Sweden in 1857 due to his political activity, where he became a member of the Parliament of Sweden and of the Swedish Academy. He led the Vega Expedition along the northern coast of Eurasia in 1878–1879. This was the first complete crossing of the Northeast Passage. Initially a troubled enterprise, the…
Return of explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld with the SS Vega to Stockholm on 24 April 1880
Swedish steamship SS Vega, used by Nordenskiöld during the expedition
SS Vega at anchor in the Penkigney Bay of the Bering Sea
SS Vega frozen into packed ice outside Piltekai, Siberia. Photo by Louis Palander