Otto Sverdrup (1854-1930)

Authors

  • William Barr

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic2169

Keywords:

Biographies, Expeditions, Explorers, Foreign relations, Fram (Ship), History, Icebreakers, Skiing, Sleds, Sovereignty, Sverdrup, Otto, 1854-1930, Baffin Bay-Davis Strait, Canadian Arctic Islands waters, Greenland, Northern Sea Route, Russian Federation, Norway, Sverdrup Islands, Nunavut

Abstract

The adventures and expeditions of Otto Sverdrup chronicled in this profile encompass the first attempted crossing of the Greenland Ice Cap on skis, his several expeditions to study ice drift in the ship Fram, which he supervised the building of, his extensive exploration of Bache Peninsula and other islands within the Sverdrup Islands group, and his command of the whaling ship Eclipse and search for the missing Rusanov and Brusilov expeditions in the Kara Sea and command of the icebreaker Svyatogor.

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Published

1984-01-01

Issue

Vol. 37 No. 1 (1984): March: 1–90

Section

Arctic Profiles