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THE Swedish North-East Passage Expedition, under Prof. Nordenskjöld, was arranged to start from Tromsoe about the 15th inst. in the Vega, which sailed from Gothenburg about the beginning of the month. The Vega is commanded by Lieut. Palander, who was second in command of the Sofia in the polar expedition of 1868. Nordenskjöld's scientific staff consists of F. Kjellman, decent in the University of Upsala, who took part in the expeditions of 1872-3 and 1875; Dr. A. Stuxberg, who took part in the expeditions of 1875 and 1876; Dr. E. Almquist, medical officer; Andreas Hovgaard, lieutenant in the Danish navy, physicist; and Giacomo Bove, lieutenant in the Italian navy, hydrographer, the last-named officially sent by his Government. The Vega is provisioned for two years, but if the state of the ice be favourable, Nordenskjöld hopes to reach Behring's Straits by the end of September. The Vega will be accompanied as far as the mouth of the Lena by a new steamer, the Lena, which will ascend the river of the same name, on which it is intended to ply, as far as the town of Yakoutsk.
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GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES . Nature 18, 308 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018308a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/018308a0