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Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930)
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sverdrup
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Several people share the family name Sverdrup : Einar Sverdrup (1895–1942), a Norwegian mining engineer and businessman Erling Sverdrup (1917–1994), a Norwegian statistician Georg Sverdrup (1770–1850), founder of the first Norwegian university library Georg ...
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n. A unit of measure of volume transport, used in oceanography.
Usage examples of sverdrup.
When Otto Sverdrup was to use the Fram for his Polar expedition, he had a number of alterations carried out.
After the Fram returned in 1902 from her second expedition under Captain Sverdrup, she was sent down to Horten to be laid up in the Naval Dockyard.
Not long after the vessel had arrived at the dockyard, Captain Sverdrup proposed various repairs and alterations.
A book, to Will Sverdrup, was a treasure, even with crumbling pages and water-stained covers.
That made him different from the Will Sverdrup of the twenty-first century.
My name is Will Sverdrup, I come from Earth in the twenty-first century.