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A REUTER message from Stockholm announces the death, at seventy-seven years of age, of ADMIRAL A. L. PALANDER, who was in command of Baron Nordenskiöld's vessel, the Vega, which completed the navigation of the North-East passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific along the north coast of Asia (1878–79). Admiral Palander was an honorary corresponding member of the Royal Geographical Society and of many other scientific societies both in Sweden and abroad.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 105, 754 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105754a0
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