Nordens Mbld

Nordens Mbld, Nilo Adolf Eric, Baron, (b. 1832), Arctic explorer, was born at Helsingfors, in Finland, and studied in the university of that town, and afterwards at Berlin, devoting himself especially to mineralogy and other sciences. Having incurred the suspicion of the Russian Government, he was compelled to remove to Sweden, and in 1858 became director of the mineralogical department of the Royal Museum at Stockholm. Between 1861 and 1873 he led four expeditions to Spitsbergen. His success in navigating the Kara Sea as far as the Yenisei (1875) convinced him of the practicability of a sea route through the Arctic Ocean to Behring Strait; in 1878 he accomplished this voyage in the Vega, reaching Yokohama in September, 1879. He has twice visited Greenland.