Otto Sverdrup (1854-1930)

The adventures and expeditions of Otto Sverdrup chronicled in this profile encompass the first attempted crossing of the Greenland Ice Cap on skis, his several expeditions to study ice drift in the ship Fram, which he supervised the building of, his extensive exploration of Bache Peninsula and other...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Barr, William
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1984
Subjects:
Biographies
Expeditions
Explorers
Foreign relations
Fram (Ship)
History
Icebreakers
Skiing
Sleds
Sovereignty
Sverdrup
Otto
1854-1930
Baffin Bay-Davis Strait
Canadian Arctic Islands waters
Greenland
Northern Sea Route
Russian Federation
Norway
Sverdrup Islands
Nunavut
Arctic
Bache Peninsula
Baffin Bay
Kara Sea
Baffin
Davis Strait
Ice cap
Icebreaker
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65221
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Summary:The adventures and expeditions of Otto Sverdrup chronicled in this profile encompass the first attempted crossing of the Greenland Ice Cap on skis, his several expeditions to study ice drift in the ship Fram, which he supervised the building of, his extensive exploration of Bache Peninsula and other islands within the Sverdrup Islands group, and his command of the whaling ship Eclipse and search for the missing Rusanov and Brusilov expeditions in the Kara Sea and command of the icebreaker Svyatogor.

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