The Most Famous
EXPLORERS from Finland
This page contains a list of the greatest Finnish Explorers. The pantheon dataset contains 405 Explorers, 1 of which were born in Finland. This makes Finland the birth place of the 32nd most number of Explorers behind Morocco and Montenegro.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Finnish Explorers of all time. This list of famous Finnish Explorers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832 - 1901)
With an HPI of 65.20, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is the most famous Finnish Explorer. His biography has been translated into 44 different languages on wikipedia.
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 Fenno-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (baron). His ethnicity was Finnish-Swedish. Born in the Grand Duchy of Finland at the time it was a part of the Russian Empire, he was later, due to his political activity, forced to move to Sweden, where he later 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. This was the first complete crossing of the Northeast Passage. Initially a troubled enterprise, the successful expedition is considered to be among the highest achievements in the history of Swedish science.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as explorers born between 1832 and 1832. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased explorers include Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.
