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
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
Are named after Nordenskjöld
- the Lago Nordenskjöld in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile ,
- the Nordenskjöld coast , a section of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula ,
- the Nordenskjöld Basin, a submarine basin,
- the Nordenskjöld ice tongue , a glacier tongue in the East Antarctic Victoria Land ,
- the Nordenskjöld Glacier , a glacier on South Georgia ,
- the Nordenskjöld outcrops, rocky outcrops on the Antarctic Peninsula,
- the Nordenskjöld Peak , a mountain on South Georgia.
- the Nordenskjöld Outcrops , rocky outcrops on the Nordenskjöld coast
Individual evidence
- ^ Project Runeberg biography
- ↑ biography
- ^ 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)
literature
- Otto Nordenskjöld: "Antarctic". Two years in snow and ice at the South Pole , Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1904 ( first volume , second volume online)
- Samuel A. Duse: Among penguins and seals , Wilhelm Baensch, Berlin 1905 ( online )
- Fred Goldberg: Otto Nordenskjöld's expeditions to Greenland in 1900 and 1909 (PDF; 2.9 MB). In: Greenland Collector 14, No. 3, 2009, p. 10.
Web links
- Works by Otto Nordenskjöld in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Otto Nordenskjöld in the Internet Archive
- The expedition around Nordenskjöld with photos
- Newspaper article about Otto Nordenskjöld in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Edda Dammmüller: December 6th, 1869 - birthday of Otto Nordenskjöld WDR ZeitZeichen from December 6th, 2019 (podcast)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Nordenskjöld, Otto |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nordenskjöld, Nils Otto Gustaf (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish geologist and polar explorer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1869 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | on Sjögelö in the Häsleby church play, Jönköpings län |
DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 1928 |
Place of death | Gothenburg |