The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Nordenskiöld, Gustav

NORDENSKIÖLD, Gustav, Swedish explorer, son of A. E. Nordenskiöld (q.v.): b. Stockholm, 1868; d. Mörsill, 6 June 1895. He explored Spitzbergen in 1890 and the Colorado cañons in 1891, and described the latter in a work translated by Morgan under the title &lsquo;The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde&rsquo; (1893).