Polar Explorers obelisk at Swedish Natural History Museum

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Campbell, Sandy

• This side of the obelisk shows a profile relief of a man looking left, with the name Adof Erik Nordenskiöld below. Nordenskiöld of Finnish/Swedish extraction and a Swediash parliamentarian. He was prominent Arctic explorer who made expeditions to Spitzbergen, the Arctic, and led Vega Expedition through the Northeast Passage. Text on the bottom of the obelisk reads, in Swedish, "Svenska sallskapet for antropologie och geografi. Reste detta minnesmarke pa vegadagen 1930"

• Date created

  2018-06-21

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Northeast Passage
  • Vega Expedition
  • Arctic Explorers, Sweden

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3B56DK9W

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International