Polar Explorers obelisk at Swedish Natural History Museum

This side of the obelisk shows a profile relief of a man looking left, with the name Adof Erik Nordenskiöld below. Nordenskiöld of Finnish/Swedish extraction and a Swediash parliamentarian. He was prominent Arctic explorer who made expeditions to Spitzbergen, the Arctic, and led Vega Expedition thro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campbell, Sandy
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/278171b0-97c6-4d78-aae5-b40fc2e36046
https://doi.org/10.7939/R3B56DK9W
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Summary:This side of the obelisk shows a profile relief of a man looking left, with the name Adof Erik Nordenskiöld below. Nordenskiöld of Finnish/Swedish extraction and a Swediash parliamentarian. He was prominent Arctic explorer who made expeditions to Spitzbergen, the Arctic, and led Vega Expedition through the Northeast Passage. Text on the bottom of the obelisk reads, in Swedish, "Svenska sallskapet for antropologie och geografi. Reste detta minnesmarke pa vegadagen 1930"