touting the benefits of the location, Mörner claimed that "the climate was absolutely unhealthy for Scandinavians, and that there is no country on earth where individual enterprise, work, and freedom of competition are so restricted by laws.

He pursued travel writing and worked translating authors, including Jack London, into the Swedish language but was fired by his publisher for taking too many liberties with the original texts.

[12] He socialized with many European artists including August Strindberg, Adolf Paul, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

[16] While in Australia, Mörner assembled "a rich ethnographic collection," took many photographs, and wrote a travelogue about his time there, Aráfis tropiska år in 1914.

While engaging in trading iron items for local artifacts, he was also somewhat critical of the German government "for their colonial intervention in the Pacific" and mildly lamented their encroachment into areas populated by indigenous people.

[2] As Germany moved into more of the area prior to World War One, Mörner returned home with over 1500 items.