Otto Nordenskjöld

Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskiöld (December 6, 1869 in Church Sjögelö game Häsleby, Jönköping County, † June 2, 1928 in Gothenburg ) was a Swedish geologist at the University of Uppsala and Arctic explorer, who for his expedition with the ship Antarctic under the command of Captain Carl Anton Larsen was known. He studied at Uppsala University in 1894 as a Doctor of Geology and later Professor and auxiliary professor. In 1905 he was appointed professor of geography and ethnography at the University of Gothenburg. Otto Nordenskiöld was the nephew of Adolf Erik Nordenskjölds, who was working in the same scientific field and also some expeditions took.

Expeditions

In the nineties of the 19th century Nordenskjold led several mineralogical expeditions in Patagonia, 1898 also to Alaska and the Klondike.

1901 broke Nordenskjold on to its Swedish Antarctic Expedition. After stopover in Buenos Aires pushed his ship, the Antarctic, up to the pack ice edge before and left it there Nordenskjold and five men on Snow Hill Iceland back, whereupon she returned to the north and the expedition next spring should pick up again. However, the ship was on the way back to Antarctica stuck in the pack ice and sank on 12 February 1903. Captain Carl Anton Larsen brought up with 16 crew members on Paulet Island in safety. Saved the men were from the Argentine ship Uruguay, in December 1903 we returned to Buenos Aires. The expedition was regarded as a scientific success and brought great fame Nordenskjold indeed a rushed him privately but in deep debt.

In 1906 he led the first French Arctic cruise on the Île de France. After the visit of Walter Wellman's Camp on Danskøya the ship ran in Raudfjord on a reef and was no longer under its own power free. The German journalist Theodor Lerner It is thanks to that the Ile de France was liberated from their predicament with the help of the workers recruited by him Dutch cruiser Friesland.

Nordenskiold undertook an expedition to Greenland in 1909 and returned in the early 1920s back to South America to explore Chile and Peru.

Others

Are named after Nordenskjold

• Lago Nordenskjold in the National Park Torres del Paine in Chile,
• The Nordenskjold Coast, a portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula,
• The Nordenskjold Basin, a basin submarines,
• The Nordenskjold - ice tongue, a glacier tongue in the Ross Sea area,
• The Nordenskjold Glacier, a glacier in South Georgia,
• The Nordenskjold outcrops, rocky outcrops on the Antarctic Peninsula,
• The Nordenskjold summit, a mountain on South Georgia.