Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901): Polar Explorer and Historian of Cartography

Kish, George

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“…Nordenskiöld and his party finally returned to Mosselbukta on 23 June, less than a week after Leigh Smith had departed. No other expedition of Nordenskiöld's, writes George Kish, was 'as beset by trials and bad luck as the expedition of 1872-1873' (Kish 1968). Only the timely arrival of Leigh Smith had prevented the Swedish expedition from tipping into a complete Arctic catastrophe.…”

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Benjamin Leigh Smith's third Arctic expedition: Svalbard, 1873

Capelotti¹

2010

Polar Record

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“…Nordenskiöld (Kish 1968). Only the timely arrival of Leigh Smith had prevented the Swedish expedition from tipping into a complete Arctic catastrophe.…”

Section: Exploring Hinpolenstretet and Wijdefjordenmentioning

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Benjamin Leigh Smith's third Arctic expedition: Svalbard, 1873

Capelotti¹

2010

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Benjamin Leigh Smith's first Arctic expedition: Svalbard, 1871

Capelotti

2006

Polar Record

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Despite five difficult and distinguished scientific expeditions to Svalbard and Franz Josef Land between 1871 and 1882, the British yachtsman and explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith published no detailed account of his expeditions. Best known for a dramatic shipwreck at Cape Flora in Franz Josef Land in 1881, his early work in Svalbard -particularly his first effort when he developed the Arctic voyaging and scientific techniques he would employ on his subsequent expeditions -has received scant attention. In the summer of 1871, Leigh Smith launched the first of three consecutive annual geographic and oceanographic explorations of Svalbard. His unpublished 1871 journal details his growing appreciation of and expertise in the European high Arctic; corrects misstatements in later accounts of this first effort; details his exploration of Hinlopenstretet and the discovery and naming of Brochøya, Foynøya, and 31 other points in northeast Svalbard; and offers glimpses of an explorer who kept his personality well-hidden behind pioneering oceanographic and geographic observations of Svalbard and its surrounding seas.

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A. E. Nordenskiöld in Swedish memory: the origin and uses of Arctic heroism

Wråkberg

2019

Acta Borealia

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For Nordic nations scientific activities in the Polar Regions proved significant in defining national identities and shaping scientific profiles. Starting in the nineteenth century and continuing throughout the next century, polar research proved instrumental in inculcating national honour and expressing small-state colonial aspirations. It provided a source of heroes for forging collective memory and the fostering of youth by presenting the polar explorer as a model character. This study explores the ideological lineage of the nineteenth century polar hero by first relating this idol to historical archetypes of Western culture. It identifies the special traits of the Nordic polar hero and discusses how it was used for patriotic purposes. As a case in point the article looks at the career of the Finnish-Swedish mineralogist and Arctic expedition leader Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and the ways he, with the help of others, successfully navigated not only the drift ice of polar seas but also the international republic of science, and the three national scenes of Sweden, Finland and Russia. In the process he was turned into a national hero both in Finland and Sweden, and presented as a patriotic role model for adolescents in the arts of postponing gratification and enduring hardship Q1 ¶ .

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Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901): Polar Explorer and Historian of Cartography

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Benjamin Leigh Smith's third Arctic expedition: Svalbard, 1873

Benjamin Leigh Smith's third Arctic expedition: Svalbard, 1873

Benjamin Leigh Smith's first Arctic expedition: Svalbard, 1871

A. E. Nordenskiöld in Swedish memory: the origin and uses of Arctic heroism

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