Nordenskiöld Base

The Nordenskiöld Base is a name used for the facilities shared by the Antarctic stations Wasa (Sweden) and Aboa (Finland). The name is in honors Otto Nordenskjöld, a Finnish-Swedish polar explorer who led the first Swedish Antarctic Expedition.

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