Sverdrup Island
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Sverdrup Island (Russian: Остров Свердрупа) is an isolated Russian island in the southern region of the Kara Sea.
Sverdrup Island is named after Norwegian polar explorer and ship Captain Otto Sverdrup who sighted it on 18 August 1893 during the Fram Expedition led by Fridtjof Nansen.
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