Geography in Sweden

At the Vega banquet of 24th April 1952, celebrating the return of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1949-52, Sven Hedin told us in his dinner speech how as a boy he had seen the glorious return to Stockholm of SS Vega on 24th April 1880. Seeing the fireworks and the royal festivity...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Belgeo
Main Author: Helmfrid, Staffan
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: National Committee of Geography of Belgium 2013
Subjects:
geo
art
Antarctic
Sven
Antarc*
Northeast Passage
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/10085
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Summary:At the Vega banquet of 24th April 1952, celebrating the return of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1949-52, Sven Hedin told us in his dinner speech how as a boy he had seen the glorious return to Stockholm of SS Vega on 24th April 1880. Seeing the fireworks and the royal festivity in honour of the conqueror of the Northeast-Passage, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, he took a solemn decision to return one day like Nordenskiöld as a hero explorer of unknown lands. With the Vega exped.

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