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Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930)
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sverdrup
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Sverdrup is a lunar crater that is located about one crater diameter from the southern pole of the Moon . It lies on the far side of the Moon with respect to the Earth , in an area of the surface that is only illuminated by very oblique light from the Sun ...
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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.