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Sverdrup Stamp UnveilingsOn March 26 of this year, Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup (1854 -1930) was commemorated with stamps jointly issued by Canada, Norway, and Greenland.Tom Charlton, VP Operations, Canada Post, remarked that this is the first time Canada has ever embarked on a multinational philatelic project.This collaboration speaks to the breadth of Sverdrup's explorations in the North: he achieved the first crossing of Greenland in 1888 -89, captained Fram safely through its drift in the polar ice pack in 1893 -96, and explored and mapped 260,000 square kilometres of new land in the Canadian High Arctic while leading the Second Fram Expedition in 1898 -1902.The Norwegian Ambassador to Canada, Ingvard Havnen, hosted an unveiling ceremony in Ottawa attended by Norwegian State Secretary Kim Tråvik and Canada's Ambassador to Norway, Shirley Wolff Serafini.The Norwegian and Greenlandic stamps were unveiled in Oslo, in a March 24 ceremony on board Fram (which, through Sverdrup's efforts, is now preserved as a walk

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