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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 Fenno-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (baron). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld has received more than 183,772 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is the 50th most popular explorer, the 13th most popular biography from Finland (down from 10th 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 50 out of 405. Before him are William Baffin, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Diego de Almagro, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and Jacob Roggeveen. After him are Richard Francis Burton, William Adams, Hugh Glass, Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson, and Diogo Cão.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 12. Before him are Maximilian I of Mexico, Gustave Doré, Edward Burnett Tylor, William Crookes, Louisa May Alcott, and Ivan Shishkin. After him are José Echegaray, George, King of Saxony, Jules Ferry, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Ármin Vámbéry, and Felice Beato. Among people deceased in 1901, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 9. Before him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Victoria, Princess Royal, Johanna Spyri, Benjamin Harrison, Arnold Böcklin, and William McKinley. After him are Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Milan I of Serbia, Charles Hermite, Li Hongzhang, Abdur Rahman Khan, and Fukuzawa Yukichi.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ranks 13 out of 642. Before him are Sauli Niinistö (1948), Tarja Halonen (1943), Urho Kekkonen (1900), Mika Waltari (1908), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), and Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870). After him are Risto Ryti (1889), Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (1917), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), Elias Lönnrot (1802), George Gaynes (1917), and Arto Paasilinna (1942).

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Among EXPLORERS In Finland

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

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