Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (Norwegian: [ˈfrɪ̂tːjɔf ˈnɑ̀nsn̩]; 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate...
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The Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates are a class of frigates that are the main surface combatant units of the Royal Norwegian Navy. The ships are named...
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MS Fridtjof Nansen is a Norwegian cruise ship (though marketed as an "expedition ship"). Named after polar explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen, it is...
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HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen is a frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Launched on 5 April 2006, she is the lead ship of the Fridtjof Nansen class of warships...
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named in his honor: Fridtjof Nansen Institute, a research foundation established in Fridtjof Nansen's home Mount Fridtjof Nansen, a mountain in the Queen...
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Herbert Range (redirect from Mount Fridtjof Nansen)
Glacier to the north. Peaks in the west include Gjelsvik Peak, Mount Fridtjof Nansen, Webster Knob and Mount Balchen. Peaks further east include Bell Peak...
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They quickly became known as "Nansen passports" for their promoter, the Norwegian statesman and polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen. The end of World War I saw...
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Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930) was a Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate. Nansen may also refer to: Nansen (surname)...
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Fridtjof Nansen Land (Norwegian: Fridtjof Nansens Land) was a suggested but not officially adopted Norwegian name of a territory on the southern East...
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organization established in 1930 by the League of Nations and named after Fridtjof Nansen, soon after his death, which was internationally in charge of refugees...
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Only One Life: the Story of Fridtjof Nansen (Bokmål: Bare et liv – Historien om Fridtjof Nansen) is a 1968 Norwegian/Soviet biographical drama film directed...
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Fram (ship) (category Fridtjof Nansen)
expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and...
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Fridtjof Nansen was the first ship in the Norwegian armed forces to be built specially to perform coast guard and fishery protection duties in the Arctic...
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Polhøgda (section Use by Fridtjof Nansen)
Polhøgda is the home of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute. It was originally built as the private home of Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen. The manor home's architecture...
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and sailed under the names Stockholm, Völkerfreundschaft, Volker, Fridtjof Nansen, Italia I, Italia Prima, Valtur Prima, Caribe, Athena, and Azores before...
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The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) is an independent research foundation specializing in research on international environmental, energy and resource...
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Nansen (18 June 1931 – 27 February 2017) was the son of architect and humanist Odd Nansen and the grandson of explorer and humanist Fridtjof Nansen....
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Nansen's Fram expedition of 1893–1896 was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural...
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capital, Riga. A European effort was led by the famous Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen through the International Committee for Russian Relief (ICRR). Hoover's...
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Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula (Danish: Fridtjof Nansens Halvø) is a peninsula in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is a part of the...
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priest Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer. In September 1889 she married Fridtjof Nansen, the polar explorer and later winner of the Nobel peace prize for his...
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HNoMS Otto Sverdrup (F312) (category Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates)
HNoMS Otto Sverdrup is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by the Spanish shipbuilders Navantia, in Ferrol, Otto Sverdrup...
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explorer and Nobel peace prize winner Fridtjof Nansen. HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (1930) – patrol vessel from 1931. Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate – a new class of...
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HNoMS Thor Heyerdahl (F314) (category Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates)
HNoMS Thor Heyerdahl is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by the Spanish shipbuilders Navantia, in Ferrol, Thor Heyerdahl...
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of an extended drift in an icebound ship. He obtained the use of Fridtjof Nansen's polar exploration ship Fram, and undertook extensive fundraising....
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June 2007. It has been chosen by the Royal Norwegian Navy for its Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates and Skjold-class corvettes. In December 2008 the NSM...
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Земля́ Фра́нца-Ио́сифа, romanized: Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa; Norwegian: Fridtjof Nansen Land) is a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It is inhabited...
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Commissioner, Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart 1954 as a tribute to Fridtjof Nansen. Fridtjof Nansen was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, explorer, and League of Nations...
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the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04), and named for Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer from whom Capt. Scott obtained much practical...
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to international prominence as a close collaborator of the explorer Fridtjof Nansen, and through organising humanitarian relief during the Russian famine...
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