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386 A History of Sweden
1858. He made a number of northern expeditions. He
definitely located Spitzbergen. He penetrated deeper
into the interior of Greenland than any explorer had
done before. He made a careful study of polar ice fields
and arctic currents and was firmly persuaded that
there was open water north of Asia, and, hence, that
a circumnavigation of the Old World of Europe, Asia,
and Africa was possible, which had theretofore been
declared impossible.
In 1878, with the "Vega" and two other ships, he set
out on this adventure. Through a narrow channel be-
tween icefields and the coast of Asia the Vega passed
during the fall, but on the last of September she was
frozen in and remained so until about midsummer
the next year, When Nordenskiold could continue
his voyage. He passed
through Bering Strait
and reached Japan.
From Yokohama he an-
nounced to the world
that the "Northeast
Passage" had been dis-
covered.
Sven Hedin. In our
own day, Sven Hedin
has won fame as the
foremost modern Swed-
ish explorer, through
his expeditions in Cen-
tral Asia. He has had
to struggle for life in
the burning heat of Sven Hedin.
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