Otto Sverdrup shortly after his return from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in 1902. This year, 1974, marks the one hundred and twentieth anniversary o f his birth. the Russian Imperial Navy
Otto Sverdrup, one of Norway’s greatest explorers, is usually remembered for his participation, as captain of Fram, in Nansen’s memorable drift of 1893-96, and for his remarkably successful exploratory expedition in 1898-1902, again in Fram, to what are now the Queen Elizabeth Islands. Such obviousl...
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