Add to ORKGThe adventures and expeditions of Otto Sverdrup chronicled in this profile encompass the first attempted crossing of the Greenland Ice Cap on skis, his several expeditions to study ice drift in the ship Fram, which he supervised the building of, his extensive exploration of Bache Peninsula and other islands within the Sverdrup Islands group, and his command of the whaling ship Eclipse and search for the missing Rusanov and Brusilov expeditions in the Kara Sea and command of the icebreaker Svyatogor
Nookapingwa was one of the best hunters and most experienced dogsled travellers in northernmost Cana...
... in spite of having gained recognition as a certified barrister, a trained medical doctor, and fi...
Contains a biography, originally prepared for Stefansson's Encyclopedia Arctica, of this British exp...
Otto Sverdrup, one of Norway's greatest explorers, is usually remembered for his participation, as c...
Otto Sverdrup, born 1854, is one of the main polar explorers in Norway. However he is much less know...
... In 1884, Eskimos hunting off the south coast of Greenland found a number of relics from the Jean...
"Einar Mikkelsen, or Mikkel, as he was often called, would have been quite at home in the old Norse ...
In the shallow Queen Maud Gulf a series of small islands, named by Amundsen during his Northwest Pas...
Otto Sverdrup, born 1854, is one of the main polar explorers in Norway. However he is much less know...
Contains a biography of the Norwegian explorer, 1872-1928, who was the first to navigate the Northwe...
In 1903 when Knud Rasmussen, a member of Mylius-Erichsen's "Danish Litterary Expedition", visited th...
Julius von Payer was born near Teplitz in Bohemia. ... Due to his expertise on alpine glaciers, he w...
Contains an account of a trip made in Aug. 1951 by a three-man party from the Lauge Koch expedition,...
Description of a traverse on foot made by the writer and F. Muller, Aug. 2-12, 1953, during the Dani...
In the summer of 1898 the trawler Helgoland sailed north from Germany, bound for Svalbard. On board ...
Nookapingwa was one of the best hunters and most experienced dogsled travellers in northernmost Cana...
... in spite of having gained recognition as a certified barrister, a trained medical doctor, and fi...
Contains a biography, originally prepared for Stefansson's Encyclopedia Arctica, of this British exp...
Otto Sverdrup, one of Norway's greatest explorers, is usually remembered for his participation, as c...
Otto Sverdrup, born 1854, is one of the main polar explorers in Norway. However he is much less know...
... In 1884, Eskimos hunting off the south coast of Greenland found a number of relics from the Jean...
"Einar Mikkelsen, or Mikkel, as he was often called, would have been quite at home in the old Norse ...
In the shallow Queen Maud Gulf a series of small islands, named by Amundsen during his Northwest Pas...
Otto Sverdrup, born 1854, is one of the main polar explorers in Norway. However he is much less know...
Contains a biography of the Norwegian explorer, 1872-1928, who was the first to navigate the Northwe...
In 1903 when Knud Rasmussen, a member of Mylius-Erichsen's "Danish Litterary Expedition", visited th...
Julius von Payer was born near Teplitz in Bohemia. ... Due to his expertise on alpine glaciers, he w...
Contains an account of a trip made in Aug. 1951 by a three-man party from the Lauge Koch expedition,...
Description of a traverse on foot made by the writer and F. Muller, Aug. 2-12, 1953, during the Dani...
In the summer of 1898 the trawler Helgoland sailed north from Germany, bound for Svalbard. On board ...
Nookapingwa was one of the best hunters and most experienced dogsled travellers in northernmost Cana...
... in spite of having gained recognition as a certified barrister, a trained medical doctor, and fi...
Contains a biography, originally prepared for Stefansson's Encyclopedia Arctica, of this British exp...