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Sven hedin biography of martin
Sven Hedin
| Swedish traveler, geographer, journalist and writer. Date of Birth: Country: Sweden |
Content:
- Biography of Sven Hedin
- Accomplishments
- Bibliography
Biography of Sven Hedin
Sven Anders Hedin was a Swedish explorer, geographer, journalist, and writer.
He was born on February 19, , in Stockholm, Sweden, and passed away on November 26, , in Stockholm. Hedin is known for his major expeditions to Tibet and Central Asia from to , which helped fill in many "white spots" on the world map.
In Tibet alone, he mapped approximately , square kilometers. Despite the simplicity of his distance calculation method, many of his maps had only minor errors compared to modern standards (according to the estimates of Karl Rosen in , the maximum error in distance was 2%).
Accomplishments
Hedin was the last person to be granted nobility by the Swedish king in , as the institution of nobility was formally abolished in In the s and s, he was perhaps the most famous Swede in