Otto Sverdrup to the Rescue of the Russian Imperial Navy

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1974
• Subjects: Arctic medicine; Biochemistry; Ethnobotany; Medicines; Native peoples; Plants (Biology); Traditional knowledge; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Christiania; Kara Sea; Ostrov Uyedineniya; Ostrova; Ostrova Firnleya; Sedov; Taymyr; Vaygach; Arkhangelsk; Northern Sea Route; Novaya Zemlya; Queen Elizabeth Islands; Siberia
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65900

Otto Sverdrup, one of Norway's greatest explorers, is usually remembered for his participation, as captain of Fram, in Nansen's memorable drift of 1893-96, and for his remarkably successful exploratory expedition in 1898-1902, again in Fram, to what are now the Queen Elizabeth Islands. . B...