Lieutenant Nordqvist's account of the Vega Expedition 1878-1879. Vega's voyage through the northeast passage
(along the north Siberian coast) and the first to circumnavigate Eurasia. A number of accounts have been published, including two in English. But a report of a Russian participant, Oscar Nordqvist, disappeared in Russian archives and was discovered only
to learn the language of the Chukchi, among whom the expedition spent the winter. The Nordqvist account, presented here for the first time in English, includes information not available from other accounts of the Vega expedition. (Ed.).