High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sven Anders Hedin KNO1kl RVO (19 February 1865 in Stockholm 26 November 1952 in Stockholm) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, and travel writer, as well as an illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia he discovered the Transhimalaya (once named the Hedin Range in his honor) and the sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers, Lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Gr ...