Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Baron (Nils) Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (also known as A. E. Nordenskioeld (18 November 1832, Helsinki, Finland 12 August 1901, Dalbyö, Södermanland, Sweden) was a Finnish geologist, mineralogist and arctic explorer, and a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists. Born in the Grand Duchy of Finland at the time it was a part of the Russian Empire, he was later, due to his political activity, forced to live in political exile in Sweden, where he later would became a member of the Parliament of Sweden. He is most remembered for the Vega expedition along the northern coast of Eurasia, which he led in 1878- 1879. This was the first complete crossing of the Northeast Passage.