Harald Ulrik Sverdup (1888–1957): celebrating the return of the Maud 75 years ago

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Author: Munk, Walter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2001
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Norway; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2165; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v20i2.6509

I came here to pay my respects to a man and to a scientist. Harald Ulrik Sverdrup left Norway aboard the R/V Maud in July 1918 for an estimated three years to conduct a broad range of geophysical measurements in the Arctic Ocean. It was to be more than seven years before the Maud came out, to Seattle on 5 October 1925, 75 years ago. The experience gained in these difficult seven years was the basis of Sverdrup’s entire subsequent career.