Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold (1832-1901), Swedish geologist and geographer, Arctic explorer and member of the Stockholm Academy of Sciences. In 1875-76 he sailed from Sweden to the mouth of the Yenisei. In 1878-79 he was the first to complete a voyage through the North-Eastern straits from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. His name was given to the archipelago to the north of the island of Taimyr and to the bays off Novaya Zemlya and to the north-east of the Spitsbergen and to a peninsula in the same area (the
Nordenskjold Peninsula). He was an associate member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and an Honorary Member of the Russian Geographical Society.
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