Sverdrup

[ sver-druhp, sfer-; Norwegian svar-droop ]

noun

1. Ot·to Neu·mann [awt, -toh , noi, -mahn], 1855?–1930, Norwegian explorer of the Arctic.
2. Also called Sverdrup Islands. a group of islands in the N Northwest Territories of Canada, in the Arctic, W of Ellesmere Island: named after Otto Neumann Sverdrup.

Example Sentences

Captain Sverdrup, who accompanied him across Greenland, goes as navigating officer of the “Fram.”

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Nansen and Sverdrup led the way with the large sleigh, while the others, each dragging a smaller one, followed in their wake.

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Nansen was standing behind the large sleigh to steady it, while Sverdrup steered from the front.

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All preparations being now made, Nansen and Sverdrup set off on their adventurous journey.

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In the course of the winter Sverdrup set up a bear-trap of his own invention, but it did not prove very successful.

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