The New Student's Reference Work/Nordenskjöld, Nils Adolf Erik



Nordenskjöld (nô′ rden-shẽl′), Nils Adolf Erik, Baron, an arctic explorer, was born at Helsingfors,, Nov. 18, 1832. He was naturalized in in 1857, and in 1858 was made head of the mineralogical department of the royal museum at. He mapped the south of, and after two trips to the mouth of the he completed the navigation of the northeast passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from June, 1878, to September, 1879, in the Vega.  On the last of his two voyages to , in 1883, he traveled 140 miles from the east coast. He was made a baron in 1880, and has written Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Scientific Results of the Vega Expedition, and Studies and Investigations. He died in 1901. See A. Leslie’s Arctic Voyages of A. E. Nordenskjöld.