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2 unusual facts about Swedish Antarctic Expedition


Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition

In addition to both ships, two light Auster aircraft intended for reconnaissance were included on the expedition.

Swedish Antarctic Expedition

Sobral and also the American artist F. W. Stokes joined the expedition and spent the two years with Nordenskjöld at Snow Hill Island, becoming the first Argentine to spend time in Antarctica.


Gerard De Geer

The Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1904) named a glacier on South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean after De Geer.

Gösta Peaks

They were mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE) (1949–52) and from air photos by the Norwegian expedition (1958–59), and were named for Gösta Hjalmar Liljequist, a Swedish meteorologist with the NBSAE.

Persson Island

Discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskjold, 1901–04, and named by him for Nils Persson, a patron of the expedition.

Seymour Island

The plaque was placed on 10 November 1903 by the crew of the Argentinian Corvette Uruguay on a mission to rescue the members of the Swedish expedition led by Otto Nordenskiöld.


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Weddell Sea

Otto Nordenskiöld, leader of the 1901-1904 Swedish Antarctic Expedition, spent a winter at Snow Hill with a team of four men when the relieve ship became beset in ice and was finally crushed.