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Otto Sverdrup
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Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer (1854-1930)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1854-10-31 ) 31 October 1854, Bindal , Norway
- Died
- 26 November 1930 (1930-11-26) (aged 76)
- Known for
- Arctic explorer
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Otto
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Bindal Municipality
- Place of death
- Sandvika
- Occupation
- traveler
- Languages spoken
- Norwegian
- Award
- Medal of Merit
- Participant in
- Sverdrup's Fram expedition (1898-1902)
- Image
- Otto Sverdrup in 1890 (engraving).jpg
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- Commons category
- Otto Sverdrup
- date of birth
- 1854-10-31
- date of death
- 1930-11-26
- place of burial
- Vestre gravlund
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- Commons Creator page
- Otto Sverdrup
- P6944
- Otto Sverdrup
- name in native language
- Otto Sverdrup
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Encyclopedic overview
Otto Neumann Knoph Sverdrup (31 October 1854 – 26 November 1930) was a Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer.
Early and personal life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Otto Sverdrup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.