Olaf Swenson
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Olaf Swenson was a Seattle-based fur trader and adventurer active in Siberia and Alaska in the first third of the 20th century. His career intersected with activities of notable explorers of the period, and with the Russian Civil War. He is credited with leading the rescue of the Karluk survivors from Wrangel Island in 1914. According to historian Thomas C. Owen, Swenson's "practicality and zest for adventure made him an ideal entrepreneur on the arctic frontier..."
Anadyr residents, 1906
Belvedere in ice
Olaf Swenson and backers of the Olaf Swenson Company, 1922. Standing , from left, MN Golovin, Secy, Jacob Weinschenker & Son, NY; Olaf Swenson, President, Treasurer, and Executive Manager of the new company; Felix Bryner of Bryner & Co, Vladivostok; seated, from left, N.A. Shvetzoff of Sshvetzoff & Son, P.A. Kushnareff of A.M Kushnareff. Directors not pictured are John G. Denbigh and Alfred G. Denbigh
Chukchi crew beaching an umiak near East Cape Station
Nanuk (ship)
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The Nanuk was a trading and whaling schooner, which was later used in the Hollywood film industry as a historicising full-rigged ship for movies, among other things.
