Nordenskield

Japanese: ノルデンシェルド
Nordenskield
Swedish explorer and geographer. Baron. His name was Nils Adolf Eric. He explored the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic Ocean several times. Aiming to open the Northeast Passage, he set out on the Vega in 1878, entered the Bering Sea in 1879, and returned to Japan in 1880 via Japan and China. He was also famous for his research on old maps. His son Nils Erland Herbert (1877-1932) was an ethnologist who explored South America and became a professor at Gothenburg University in 1914. His nephew Otto (1869-1928) was also a geographer who explored Patagonia, Alaska, and other places, and was the leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition from 1901 to 1903. He became a professor at Gothenburg University in 1905.

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Japanese:
スウェーデンの探検家,地理学者。男爵。名はニルス・アドルフ・エリック。北極海のスバールバル諸島を数度探検。北東航路を開こうと志し,1878年ベガ号で出発,1879年にはベーリング海に入り,日本,中国を経て1880年帰国した。古地図の研究でも著名。その子のニルス・エルラント・ヘルベルト〔1877-1932〕は民族学者で,南米を探査,1914年からイェーテボリ大学教授。甥のオットー〔1869-1928〕も地理学者で,パタゴニア,アラスカ等を探検,1901年―1903年スウェーデン南極探検隊長。1905年からイェーテボリ大学教授。

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