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    Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (pronunciation; 18 November 1832 – 12 August 1901) was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer...
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    Gustaf Nordenskiöld (October 12, 1792 – February 2, 1866) was a Finnish mineralogist and traveller. He was the father of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, a mineralogist...
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  • coast of Africa. Nordenskiöld died in a violent clash between locals in Sierra Leone, where he had moved. His nephew, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, was an Arctic...
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    Josef Land 1873: Benjamin Leigh Smith comes to Nordenskiöld's aid in Spitsbergen 1875: Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is the first to reach the Yenisey by sea 1875–1876:...
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    Guelders and Utrecht Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832–1901), Finnish-Swedish explorer Adolf Noreen (1854–1925), Swedish linguist Adolf Oberländer (1845–1923)...
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    the SS Vega and under the leadership of Finland-Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, was the first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeast...
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    Finland-Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, with the Swedish ship Vega 1878–79 backed by the royal funding of king Oscar II of Sweden. Nordenskiöld was forced...
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    Nordenskiöldbreen (Nordenskiöld Glacier) is a glacier in Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is named after Finnish geologist Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832–1901). Nordenskiöldbreen...
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    Laptev Sea (redirect from Nordenskiöld Sea)
    under various names, the last being Nordenskiöld Sea (Russian: мо́ре Норденшёльда), after explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. The sea has a severe climate with...
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    Kuzkin, after its Pomor discoverer. In 1875, the Finnish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld renamed it after the wealthy Swedish merchant and philanthropist...
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    He was a member of the Nordenskiöld family of scientists and the eldest son of polar explorer Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and his equally aristocratic...
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    Schools and Colleges on 2 Chronicles 5, accessed 17 April 2020 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1889). Facsimile-atlas to the Early History of Cartography: With...
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  • and eccentric (1942–2010) Sophie Mannerheim – nurse (1863–1928) Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld – explorer (1832–1901) Eugen Schauman – civilian who killed Nikolai...
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  • The island was visited in 1875 by a Swedish expedition led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and sponsored by the businessman Oscar Dickson. "Nova Zembla Island"...
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    age, Hedin witnessed the triumphal return of the Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld after his first navigation of the Northern Sea Route. From that...
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    Russia. This glacier group was named after Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. The Nordenskiöld Glacier group is located on the eastern side of the northern...
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    War Gustaf Nordenskiöld, explorer of the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colorado; son of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Arctic explorer...
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    romanized: al-Arḍ al-Muqaddasah, or الديار المقدسة, ad-Diyār al-Muqaddasah. Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik (1889). Facsimile-atlas to the Early History of Cartography: With...
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    and 1953. Anna Maria Mannerheim, married in 1863 to Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Augustin Marhein Carl Erik Mannerheim (1759–1837) - Finnish soldier, statesman...
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    significant penetrations of the Greenland interior had been those of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld in 1883, and Robert Peary in 1886. Both had set out from Disko...
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    Nordenskiöld branch: Otto Henrik Nordenskiöld (1747–1832), Swedish Admiral August Nordenskiöld (1754–1792), alchemist, brother of Otto Henrik Adolf Erik...
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    Collected Essays. Vol. 2. Eisenbrauns. p. 378. ISBN 978-1-57506-113-9. Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik (1889). Facsimile-atlas to the Early History of Cartography: With...
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  • Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. The bay is named after Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. Located between Laponiahalvøya and Prins Oscars Land, the bay...
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  • important scientific explorers were Baltazar Mathias Keilhau, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and Martin Conway. Sustainable mining started in 1906 with the...
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  • Nordenskiöld Bay (Russian: Залив Норденшельда) or Nordenskiöld Fjord is a fjord on the Barents Sea coast of Severny Island in Novaya Zemlya, Russia. The...
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  • whose name in the Chukchi language means "use", was mentioned by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld in his Vega Expedition. Cape Yakan is located in the Long Strait...
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    The Wetherills also hosted Gustaf Nordenskiöld, the son of polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, in 1891. Nordenskiöld was a trained mineralogist who introduced...
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    Dezhnev. It was not until in 1878 that Finnish-Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld made the first complete passage of the North East Passage from...
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  • first described by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, who discovered it in Arendal, Norway in 1870s. Yttrogummite on Mindat.org Nordenskiöld, A.E. (1878): Mineralogiska...
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    Ottomar Herzog, German-American painter (d. 1932) November 18 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish geologist and explorer (d. 1901) November 26 –...
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