Otto Nordenskjöld

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Otto Nordenskjöld

Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (born December 6, 1869 on Sjögelö in the parish of Hässleby, Jönköpings län ; † June 2, 1928 in Gothenburg ) was a Swedish geologist and polar explorer who worked for his Antarctic expedition (1901-1903) with the ship Antarctic under the command of Captain Carl Anton Larsen became known.

He studied at Uppsala University , where he received his doctorate in geology in 1894 and was later a lecturer and assistant professor. In 1905 he was appointed professor of geography and ethnography at the University of Gothenburg .

Otto Nordenskjöld was the nephew of the polar explorer and cartographer Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld .

Expeditions

Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in October 1901 on board the Antarctic (from left to right): Carl Skottsberg , Otto Nordenskjöld, Karl Andersson, Carl Anton Larsen, Erik Ekelöf, Axel Ohlin , Gösta Bodman.

In the 1890s, Nordenskjöld led several mineralogical expeditions in Patagonia , and in 1898 also to Alaska and the Klondike area. In 1900 he took part in Georg Carl Amdrup's East Greenland expedition .

In 1901 Nordenskjöld set out on his Swedish Antarctic expedition . After a stop in Buenos Aires, his ship, the Antarctic , pushed to the pack ice border and left Nordenskjöld and five men on Snow Hill Island , whereupon they returned north and was supposed to pick up the expedition again next spring. However, the ship got stuck in the pack ice on its way back to the Antarctic and sank on February 12, 1903. Captain Carl Anton Larsen and 16 crew members made it to safety on Paulet Island . The men were rescued by the Argentine ship Uruguay , and in December 1903 they returned to Buenos Aires. The expedition was seen as a scientific success and, although it brought Nordenskjöld great fame, privately it plunged him into deep debt.

In 1906 he led the first French Arctic cruise on the Île de France . After visiting Walter Wellman's camp on Danskøya , the ship ran into a reef in the Raudfjord and could no longer free itself on its own. It is thanks to the German journalist Theodor Lerner that the Île de France was able to be freed from its predicament with the help of the Dutch cruiser Friesland , which he brought in.

Nordenskjöld made another expedition to Greenland in 1909 and returned to South America in the early 1920s to explore Chile and Peru.

Others

Lago Nordenskjöld

Are named after Nordenskjöld

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Project Runeberg biography
  2. biography
  3. ^ John T. Reilly: Greetings from Spitsbergen. Tourists at the Eternal Ice 1827-1914 . Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim 2009. ISBN 978-82-519-2460-3 . Pp. 161–166 (English)

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