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35-506: He was born in Bindal Municipality as a son of farmer Ulrik Frederik Suhm Sverdrup (1833–1914) and his wife Petra Neumann Knoph (1831–1885). He was a great-grandnephew of Georg Sverdrup and Jacob Liv Borch Sverdrup , first cousin twice removed of Harald Ulrik and Johan Sverdrup , second cousin once removed of Jakob , Georg and Edvard Sverdrup , third cousin of Georg Johan , Jakob , Mimi , Leif and Harald Ulrik Sverdrup . He

70-524: A sovereignty dispute with Canada , which claimed sovereignty over all land, discovered or undiscovered in what is now the Canadian Arctic. The dispute was not settled until 1930 when Norway ceded the islands to Canada. In that year Sverdrup signed a deal with the Canadian Government, who would buy the records of Sverdrup's expeditions for $ 67,000 Canadian dollars. Sverdrup died just two weeks after

105-576: Is indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council. The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Helgeland District Court and the Hålogaland Court of Appeal . The municipal council ( Kommunestyre ) of Bindal is made up of 17 representatives that are elected to four year terms. The tables below show the current and historical composition of the council by political party . The mayor ( Norwegian : ordfører ) of Bindal

140-564: Is classified as independent and therefore not administered by the municipality. Gunnar Isachsen Gunnerius Ingvald Isachsen (3 October 1868 – 19 December 1939), was a Norwegian military officer and polar scientist. From 1923, he was the first president of the Norwegian Maritime Museum . He was born in Drøbak , Norway in 1868 and grew up there. His father was the shipmaster Nils Høgh Isachsen (1838–1913), and his mother

175-459: Is named in her honour. They had three children (Fridtjov, Nils, and Gerd). His second marriage, in 1916, was to Marie Sophie Louisa Steenstrup (1884–1958). They had five children (Kjell, Inger, Karen, Odd, and Finn); Odd Isachsen is still living. Through his second marriage, Gunnar Isachsen was a brother-in-law of Hjalmar Steenstrup . In 1903, he was knighted 1st Class of the Order of St. Olav , and

210-650: Is part of the Sør-Helgeland prosti ( deanery ) in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland . Bindal borders four municipalities in Trøndelag county: Høylandet Municipality and Nærøysund Municipality in the south, Namsskogan Municipality in the southeast, and Leka Municipality in the west. Bindal also has borders Sømna Municipality , Brønnøy Municipality , and Grane Municipality in Nordland county. The Bindalsfjorden runs through

245-457: Is the 81st largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Bindal is the 306th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,399. The municipality's population density is 1.2 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.1/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 10% over the previous 10-year period. The ancient district of Bindalen belonged to Namdalen . However, in 1658, when

280-568: Is the political leader of the municipality and the chairperson of the municipal council. Here is a list of people who have held this position (incomplete list): The most important industries in Bindal are aquaculture , farming and forestry . Boat races for Nordland boats have been held annually since 1978 in the main village of Terråk during the last weekend of June. Bindal has a traditional boat-building industry and Nordland boats are still manufactured here. Bindal has two schools; one of them

315-739: The St. Anna and that of Vladimir Rusanov on the Gerkules . Sverdrup's fourth and last expedition in Arctic Siberian waters was in 1921, when, from the bridge of the Soviet Icebreaker Lenin , he commanded a convoy of five cargo ships on an experimental run through the Kara Sea to the mouths of the Ob and Yenisei . The ships reached their destinations and returned safely. This was considered an important step in

350-790: The Royal Geographical Society in 1903, and received an honorary degree at the University of St Andrews . Sverdrup had also been made a Knight 1st Class of the Prussian Order of the Crown in 1902, but in an open letter to the German legation in Oslo on 25 October 1917 declared that he was returning the order in protest against the unrestricted warfare then being waged by the German U-boats in

385-713: The Sverdrup Islands . In adopting Inuit methods, Sverdrup and his crew were able to chart a total of 260,000 square kilometers - more than any other polar exploration. The area was famously mapped by his topographer, Gunnar Isachsen , and 35 academic publications were penned as a result of the expedition. Upon Sverdrup's return in Norway, he was treated as a national hero. However, he remains relatively unknown in North America, and relatively unknown for his Canadian exploration in Norway. Sverdrup officially claimed all three islands he discovered for Norway in 1902, setting off

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420-835: The Director of the Norwegian Maritime Museum in Oslo, and in 1923 and 1924, he took part in expeditions to East Greenland . He was promoted to Major in 1924, and participated in a special whaling mission to the Ross Sea in 1926–27. He was the government's whaling inspector in the Southern Ocean in 1929–30, and the leader of the fourth Norvegia expedition circumnavigating the South Pole in 1930–31. Isachsen married Signe Amalie Eide (1876–1911) in 1903. Signehamna harbour in Svalbard

455-651: The First World War, causing the deaths of hundreds of Norwegian sailors. The day before Sverdrup's return of his order, fellow explorer Roald Amundsen had also returned his German awards. Bindal Municipality Bindal is a municipality in the Helgeland region in the extreme southwest part of Nordland county , Norway . The administrative centre is the village of Terråk . Other villages include Bindalseidet , Holm , Vassås , Horsfjord and Åbygda . The 1,266-square-kilometre (489 sq mi) municipality

490-565: The French military service in Algeria and Paris . From 1906 to 1910, he led topographic and bathymetric research expeditions at Svalbard . These expeditions were paid for by Prince Albert of Monaco . Isachsen led his own government-financed expeditions to Spitsbergen in 1909 and 1910. As a result of these expeditions, he founded the Norwegian systematic research work on Svalbard. In 1911, Isachsen

525-619: The Kingdom of Denmark-Norway ) and the larger part remained in Trondheim county and became Sør-Bindalen (and part of the Kingdom of Sweden ). The two remained separate after Trøndelag county was reunited with Norway in 1660. In 1815, a single Church of Norway prestegjeld called Bindalen was created, combining Nord-Bindalen and Sør-Bindalen into one church parish, despite belonging to different counties. The 1838 formannskapsdistrikt law divided

560-619: The Norwegian names, such as Hoved Island ("main island") and Prince Gustav Adolf Sea (after the Swedish king Gustav VI Adolf ) in the Canadian Arctic . Between 1899 and 1902, he overwintered three more times on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic with the Fram , continuing to explore and map, culminating in the discovery of the islands to the west of Ellesmere Island, namely Axel Heiberg , Amund Ringnes and Ellef Ringnes , collectively known as

595-755: The central part of the municipality. From the coast, the municipality reaches into the mountains towards the lake Majavatnet in Grane. The highest point in the municipality is the 1,088.13-metre (3,570.0 ft) tall mountain Tjeldviktinden on the border with Brønnøy Municipality . Another notable mountain is the 1,058-metre (3,471 ft) tall Heilhornet . It also includes part of the lakes Eidvatnet and Fjellvatnet , which also partially lie in Brønnøy Municipality . Other lakes include Åbjørvatnet , Kalvvatnet , and Saglivatnet . The river Åbjøra runs through

630-450: The country into civil municipalities which were supposed to correspond to the parishes of the Church of Norway . The parish of Bindalen (which straddled the county border) was created as Bindal Municipality, but the southern part was part of Nordre Trondheim county and the northern part of the municipality belonged to Nordland county, making for an unusual situation. In 1852, the county border

665-503: The county ( län ) of Trondheim was ceded to Sweden in the Treaty of Roskilde , the status of the border district was ambiguous, with residents paying some taxes to Helgeland , in Nordland , and some to Namdalen. The decision was then made to redraw the county boundary to run down the Bindalsfjorden and assigning the northern part, Nord-Bindalen , to Nordland county (which remained in

700-592: The deal was signed, but the money secured the future of his family. The records were archived in the National Archives of Canada , but were later returned to the National Library of Norway . One of Sverdrup's lesser known exploits was a search-and-rescue expedition aboard ship Eklips in the Kara Sea in 1914–1915. His aim was to search for two missing Arctic expeditions, that of Captain Georgy Brusilov on

735-780: The development of the Kara Sea sector of the Northern Sea Route . Sverdrup also has an unsuccessful business venture in Cuba , a plantation project in the Oriente Province in 1904. The last years of his life he lived in Sandvika , at the property Homewood on a hill overlooking the town. He died in November 1930. A statue of Sverdrup was erected in Steinkjer in 1957, and in 1999 a statue of Sverdrup

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770-426: The eastern part of Bindal. Part of the island of Austra is in Bindal. Bindal Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services , senior citizen services, welfare and other social services , zoning , economic development , and municipal roads and utilities. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor

805-520: The farm Trana outside the town of Steinkjer . At this time O. T. Olsen, a teacher and employee in the bank at Kolvereid and a relative of his mother, had purchased the steamboat TRIO . Sverdrup was employed as captain. Around this time Sverdrup also met the lawyer Alexander Nansen who lived in the town of Namsos . He was the brother of Fridtjof Nansen and through him Sverdrup and Fridtjof Nansen learned to know each other. Sverdrup joined Fridtjof Nansen 's expedition of 1888 across Greenland . In 1892 he

840-441: The farm named Hårstad, where Otto Sverdrup was born. In 1872, at the age of 17, Otto Sverdrup returned to Nærøy Municipality , to Ottersøy where his uncle Søren worked in transportation with his own vessels. Here Sverdrup started his career as a seaman and after a while he was sailing abroad. In 1875, he passed his mate's examination, and some years later the shipmaster's examination. In 1877 Sverdrup's parents moved from Bindal to

875-495: The field symbolizes the importance of the sea and boating and the circular arrangement of rivets was chosen to symbolize the importance of the boat building industry in Bindal. There are six rivets to represent 6 school districts, 6 originally inhabited islands, and 6 fjords areas in the municipality. The arms were designed by Arvid Sveen. The Church of Norway has two parishes ( sokn ) within Bindal Municipality. It

910-575: The marine research in Bergen . From 1898 to 1902, Isachsen was topographer on Otto Sverdrup 's Fram expedition to the Arctic archipelago . During this voyage, he was promoted to Rittmester in 1899, and mapped large areas of hitherto unknown islands in Northern Canada , mainly by long sledge journeys. These included Ellef Ringnes Island , King Christian Island . From 1903 to 1905, he participated in

945-446: The river name Birna (now called the river Åbjøra ). The river name is derived from the word birna which means "(female) bear ". The last element is dalr which means " valley " or "dale". Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled Bindalen . On 3 November 1917, a royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to Bindal , removing the definite form ending -en . The coat of arms

980-502: The shipmaster of Lofoten , a passenger ship to and from Svalbard. In 1898 he embarked on another expedition with Fram . Sverdrup attempted to circumnavigate Greenland via Baffin Bay but failed to make it through the Nares Strait . Forced to overwinter on Ellesmere Island , he and his crew explored and named many uncharted fjords and peninsulas on the western shores of the island, explaining

1015-620: Was Marie Cecilie Sivertsen (1839–1909). His sister, Louise Isachsen, was a physician. After passing the matriculation exam in 1888, he entered the Norwegian Military Academy . Isachsen was made a first lieutenant in the Norwegian cavalry in 1891. Gymnastics and sports keenly interested Isachsen, and he graduated from the gymnasium Central School in 1898, also taking courses at the Marine Observatory in Wilhelmshaven and

1050-668: Was a brother-in-law of Johan Vaaler , and Otto himself married his own first cousin, Gretha Andrea Engelschiøn (1866–1937), in October 1891 in Kristiania . Their daughter Audhild Sverdrup (1893–1932) married Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander . His father was born on Buøy in Kolvereid Municipality . As oldest son Otto was heir to the Sverdrup properties at Buøy. However, he left it all to his younger brothers and went to Åbygda in Bindal, to

1085-509: Was an advisor to Fridtjof Nansen when the ship Fram was built. In 1893 Sverdrup was given command of the ship, and in 1895 he was left in charge of it while Nansen attempted to reach the North Pole . Sverdrup managed to free the ship from the ice near Svalbard in August 1896 and sailed to Skjervøy , arriving just 4 days after Nansen had reached Norway. In the summer of 1897 Sverdrup worked as

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1120-747: Was erected in Sandvika, in the square named after him, Otto Sverdrups plass . In 2008, the Royal Norwegian Navy commissioned the HNoMS Otto Sverdrup , a Nansen class frigate, in honor of the mariner and explorer. He was made a Commander 1st Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1896, and promoted to Grand Cross in 1902. In addition, he was awarded gold medals from the Norwegian Geographical Society in 1889 and

1155-420: Was granted on 9 February 1990. The official blazon is " Azure , six nails Or in annulo" ( Norwegian : I blått seks gull nagler i rosett ). This means the arms have a blue field (background) and the charge is a circular arrangement of six nails or rivets . The charge has a tincture of Or which means it is commonly colored yellow, but if it is made out of metal, then gold is used. The blue color in

1190-462: Was moved so that all of Bindal Municipality was located in Nordland county. On 1 January 1964, the area around the inner Bindalsfjorden and the village of Lande (population: 296) was transferred from Bindal Municipality to Brønnøy Municipality . The municipality (originally the parish ) is named after the Bindalen valley ( Old Norse : Birnudalr ). The first element is the genitive case of

1225-673: Was on assignment in Russia and Japan. Three years later, a fire destroyed his house in Asker, and with it all his maps and records. He served as a regular salaried officer to 1917. He was the Norwegian government's technical delegate to the Svalbard Treaty of Paris in 1914 and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 . Isachsen visited the Faroe Islands and Iceland in 1922. In 1923, he became

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