/sver"dreuhp, sfer"-/ ; Norw. /svardd"drddoop/ , n.
1. Otto Neumann /awt"toh noy"mahn/ , 1855?-1930, Norwegian explorer of the Arctic.
2. Also called Sverdrup Islands . a group of islands in the N Northwest Territories of Canada, in the Arctic, W of Ellesmere Island: named after Otto Neumann Sverdrup.