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Medal commemorating the first navigation of the North East Passage, 1879

Medal commemorating the first navigation of the North East Passage, 1879. Obverse: Heads of the two explorers conjoined (left). Legend: 'A.A.L. PALANDER A.E.NORDENSKIÖLD'. Reverse: Port broadside view of the barque 'Vega' steaming through the ice. Legend: 'INVIA TENACI NULLA EST VIA'. Exergue: 'ORAS ASIAE BOREALES PRIMUM CIRCUMNAVIGANTIBUS REG . ACAD . SCIENT . SVEC . MDCCCLXXIX' (To the first navigators of the north coast of Asia by the Royal Swedish Academy).
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Object Details

ID: MEC2266
Collection: Coins and medals
Type: Medal
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Ahlborn, Lea
Places: Sweden
Events: Arctic Exploration: Navigation of the North-East Passage by Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, 1878-1879
Vessels: Vega (1872)
Date made: 1879
People: Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik; Royal Swedish Academy of Science Palander, Adolf Arnold Louis
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 48 mm