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    Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (6 December 1869 – 2 June 1928) was a Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer. Nordenskjöld was born in Hässleby...
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    led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour to Antarctica in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Otto Nordenskjöld...
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  • peninsula. The Longing Peninsula was discovered and roughly charted by Otto Nordenskjöld, leader of the swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04, who...
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    charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04, under Otto Nordenskjöld, who included it with the broad embayment under the name Sidney Herbert...
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    slightly west of center on Vega Island. Discovered by the SwedAE under Otto Nordenskjöld, 1901-04. Charted in 1945 by the FIDS, and so named because a horizontal...
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  • charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901–1904, led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was mapped in 1946 by the Falkland Islands...
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    surveyed in 1903 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE) under Otto Nordenskjöld, who named it Cape Lagrelius after Axel Lagrelius of Stockholm, who...
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  • example. It is named after Swedish geologist and Antarctic explorer Otto Nordenskjöld. Antarcticeras is represented by two fossil shell fragments from the...
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    First surveyed by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE) under Otto Nordenskjöld, 1901-04, who named it Cape Bodman after Doctor Gosta Bodman, hydrographer...
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    forests. See Köppen climate classification for more information. Otto Nordenskjöld theorized that winter conditions also play a role: His formula is...
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    Peninsula. The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld for the expedition ship Antarctic which in 1902, under the command...
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    discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04, under Otto Nordenskjöld, and named by him for August and Wilhelm Röhss, patrons of the expedition...
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    forests. See Köppen climate classification for more information. Otto Nordenskjöld theorized that winter conditions also play a role: His formula is...
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    for the relief of the stranded Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld. In search of more permanent employment in 1903, Shackleton applied...
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    was named after the Argentine corvette, ARA Uruguay, which rescued Otto Nordenskjöld and his crew in 1903 in the Antarctic Peninsula, near the present-day...
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  • Gabriel Nathorst Edward Nelson Umberto Nobile Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Otto Nordenskjöld Børge Ousland Dmitry Ovtsyn Pyotr Pakhtusov Nathaniel Palmer Ivan...
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  • head of Nordenskjöld Glacier and stands close east of Mount Roots in the Allardyce Range of South Georgia. The name derives from nearby Nordenskjöld Glacier...
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    impetus for this enterprise came from the geologist and explorer Otto Nordenskjöld, who had led the 1901–03 Swedish Antarctic Expedition He wished to...
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    The Nordenskjöld (Spanish: Lago Nordenskjöld or Lago Nordenskiöld) is a lake in Torres del Paine National Park in the Magallanes Region, southern Chile...
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    ship Antarctic of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–03) led by Otto Nordenskjöld. On that occasion, the name Grytviken ("The Pot Cove") was given by...
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    Expedition to be led by Felix König; an Anglo-Swedish expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld and Johan Gunnar Andersson, and a British expedition under Joseph...
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    the Nordenskjöld Coast disintegrated in 1995. There are now only a few small ice caps remaining along the Nordenskjöld coast. Otto Nordenskjöld and the...
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  • Thumbnail for Markham Bay (Antarctica)
    charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskjöld, who named it for Sir Clements Markham. Map all coordinates using...
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    stations Wasa (Sweden) and Aboa (Finland). The name is in honors Otto Nordenskjöld, a Finnish-Swedish polar explorer who led the first Swedish Antarctic...
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    determining the boundary between Arctic and subarctic climates posited by Otto Nordenskjöld, however, Rankin Inlet, along with Arviat and Baker Lake, qualify...
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  • Thumbnail for The Naze (James Ross Island)
    Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04, under Otto Nordenskjöld. The recommended form is the English version used by Nordenskjold. 63°58′S 57°32′W / 63.967°S 57...
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    in October 1903 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE) under Otto Nordenskjöld , who named it for Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden (later King Gustav...
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    Many that were not shot were left behind on the Kerguelen Islands. Otto Nordenskjöld intended to use Greenland dogs in his 1901–1904 expedition, but all...
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    Inlet, Patagonia". Proceedings of the Zoological Society: 144–156. Otto Nordenskjöld (with the participation of other authors): Scientific results of the...
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  • Nordenskjöld Basin is an undersea basin named in association with the Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue (itself after explorer Otto Nordenskjöld). Name approved...
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