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    Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (6 December 1869 – 2 June 1928) was a Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer. Nordenskjöld was born in Hässleby...
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    led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour to Antarctica in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Otto Nordenskjöld...
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    surveyed in 1903 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE) under Otto Nordenskjöld, who named it Cape Lagrelius after Axel Lagrelius of Stockholm, who...
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  • peninsula. The Longing Peninsula was discovered and roughly charted by Otto Nordenskjöld, leader of the swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04, who...
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    The Nordenskjöld (Spanish: Lago Nordenskjöld or Lago Nordenskiöld) is a lake in Torres del Paine National Park in the Magallanes Region, southern Chile...
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  • charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901–1904, led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was mapped in 1946 by the Falkland Islands...
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    charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04, under Otto Nordenskjöld, who included it with the broad embayment under the name Sidney Herbert...
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    First surveyed by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE) under Otto Nordenskjöld, 1901-04, who named it Cape Bodman after Doctor Gosta Bodman, hydrographer...
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    stations Wasa (Sweden) and Aboa (Finland). The name is in honors Otto Nordenskjöld, a Finnish-Swedish polar explorer who led the first Swedish Antarctic...
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    6 3/4 miles eastward of Cape Gordon. Vega Island was named by Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld, leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE; 1901–04), apparently...
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