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Sven Hedin
| Swedish traveler, geographer, journalist and writer. Date of Birth: 19.02.1865 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, 1865, in Stockholm, Sweden, and passed away on November 26, 1952, in Stockholm.
Over the course of three decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Swedish geographer and explorer Sven Hedin traveled Central Asia¼s ancient Silk Road.
Hedin is known for his major expeditions to Tibet and Central Asia from 1893 to 1909, which helped fill in many "white spots" on the world map. In Tibet alone, he mapped approximately 170,000 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 1918, the maximum error in distance was 2%).
Accomplishments
Hedin was the last person to be granted nobility by the Swedish king in 1902, as the institution of nobility was formally abolished in 1975.
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