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Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld

1832 - 1901

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Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (; 18 November 1832 – 12 August 1901) was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the noble Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (baron). Born in the Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire, he was forced to move to Sweden in 1857 due to his political activity, where he became a member of the Parliament of Sweden and of the Swedish Academy. He led the Vega Expedition along the northern coast of Eurasia in 1878–1879. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is the 46th most popular explorer (up from 57th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Finland (up from 21st in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Explorer.

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is most famous for discovering the Northeast Passage from Europe to Asia.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 46 out of 498. Before him are Juan Ponce de León, Daniel Boone, Jacob Roggeveen, Ingólfr Arnarson, Ernest Shackleton, and Louis Antoine de Bougainville. After him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Martin Behaim, William Clark, Samuel de Champlain, Diego de Almagro, and Giovanni Battista Belzoni.

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Among people born in 1832, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 12. Before him are Wilhelm Wundt, Lewis Carroll, Nikolaus Otto, Gustave Doré, José Echegaray, and Edward Burnett Tylor. After him are William Crookes, Ivan Shishkin, Ármin Vámbéry, Horatio Alger, Andrew Dickson White, and George, King of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1901, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 10. Before him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Victoria, Princess Royal, Johanna Spyri, Leon Czolgosz, Benjamin Harrison, and Arnold Böcklin. After him are George Francis FitzGerald, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Li Hongzhang, Charles Hermite, Milan I of Serbia, and Fukuzawa Yukichi.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 14 out of 751. Before him are Tarja Halonen (1943), Elias Lönnrot (1802), Urho Kekkonen (1900), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), Sauli Niinistö (1948), and Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870). After him are Mika Waltari (1908), Ragnar Granit (1900), Johan Gadolin (1760), Risto Ryti (1889), Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), and Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865).

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Among EXPLORERS In Finland

Among explorers born in Finland, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 1. 

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