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  3. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe
    Volume 1
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2013
    10 May 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139235938
    9781108049832
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139235938
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.69kg, 552 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, Historical Geography, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Historical Geography, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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    The Finnish geologist and Arctic explorer A. E. Nordenskiöld (1832–1901) spent much of his life in exile in Sweden, where he was made a baron. He served as Superintendent of the Mineralogical Department of the Swedish Royal Museum, and later became a Member of the Swedish Academy. Following a number of expeditions during the 1860s, he concluded that the North Pole could not be reached by ship, and in 1872 he tried unsuccessfully to reach it overland. A great historian of cartography, he amassed a huge collection of maps, now included in UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' Register. This two-volume work, published in Swedish in 1881, describes his most famous voyage, the first crossing of the North-East Passage. Volume 1 includes details of the flora, fauna, people and geology encountered on the journey from Tromso to the Bering Strait, along with a review of previous exploration in the region.

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