Sverdrup´s Arctic Adventures. Or: What makes an Expedition Report worth reading? – Otto Sverdrup: New Land. Four years in the Arctic Regions (1903)

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Henning Howlid Wærp
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2008
• Subjects: reiseskildring; Otto Sverdrup; New Land; Norwegian literature; PT8301-9155; Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Norway; Fridtjof; Peary; Johansen; Paa; Astrup; Eivind Astrup; Fridtjof Nansen; Nordpol*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1347; https://doaj.org/article/77e3eeded2a344b9aba9b8ccdd392f12

Otto Sverdrup, born 1854, is one of the main polar explorers in Norway. However he is much less known not only than Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen, but also than Hjalmar Johansen, who was a member of Nansen´s Fram expedition 1893-96, and also lesser known than Eivind Astrup, who took part in two...