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    Nansen Island (64°35′S 62°06′W / 64.583°S 62.100°W / -64.583; -62.100 (Nansen Island)) is the largest of the islands lying in Wilhelmina Bay off the...
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    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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  • Greenland Mount Nansen (Antarctica) Mount Fridtjof Nansen, Antarctica Mount Nansen (Yukon) in Yukon, Canada Nansen Island (disambiguation) Nansen Land, Greenland...
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  • Nansen Island may refer to: Nansen Island (Antarctica) Nansen Island (Franz Josef Land) Nansen Island (Kara Sea) Nansen Land This disambiguation page...
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    Mountains of Brabant Island. The Arctowski Peninsula defines its southwest side, Forbidden Plateau its southeast side and Nansen Island is in the northeast...
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    Nansen passports, originally and officially stateless persons passports, were internationally recognized refugee travel documents from 1922 to 1938, first...
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  • Mulroy Island Mumm Islands Murphy Rocks Murray Island Mushroom Island Myall Islands Nabbøya Nadezhdy Island Nakaya Islands Nansen Island or Isla Nansen Sur...
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    much discouragement from other polar explorers, Nansen took his ship Fram to the New Siberian Islands in the eastern Arctic Ocean, froze her into the...
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    Nansen Island (Russian: Остров Нансена), is a long and narrow island in the coast of the Kara Sea. Its length is 21 km (13 mi) and its average width about...
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    Nansen Island (Russian: о́стров На́нсена; Ostrov Nansena) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. The island is partly glaciated and its area is 164 km2...
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  • Caribbean islands by area List of European islands by population List of islands by area List of islands by population Malta and the Canary Islands are not...
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    Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named "Ile Nansen" after Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer. To avoid confusion with Nansen Island (q.v.) in Wilhelmina Bay, the...
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    Fram (ship) (category Fridtjof Nansen)
    of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912...
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  • (0.47 mi) long island located 600 m (2,000 ft) to the west of Cape Johansen (Mys Iogansena), the westernmost headland of Nansen Island. It lies on the...
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    island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Arctic. The area where Eva Island lies was named Hvidtenland (White Land) by Fridtjof Nansen who...
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    200°N 55.617°E / 81.200; 55.617) on the western part of the island was where Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen wintered in 1895-96 after failing to reach...
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    "Greenland" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. XI (9th ed.). pp. 166–171. Nansen, Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg (1911). "Greenland" . Encyclopædia Britannica...
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    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...
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    east and Inexpressible Island to the west. The Priestley Glacier flows to the east of the Northern Foothills into the Nansen Ice Sheet. The Larsen Glacier...
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  • Strait between Charlotte Bay to the east and Wilhelmina Bay to the west. Nansen Island is to the west. The Forbidden Plateau is to the southwest and the Foster...
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  • Nuevo León, Mexico) – now Bowen Island Banks Island, Queensland, Australia – Joseph Banks – now Moa Island Bedloe's Island, New York, United States – Isaack...
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    Stromness, South Georgia (category Whaling stations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
    the west side of Stromness Bay, South Georgia. The name "Fridtjof Nansen" or Nansen appeared for this harbour on some early charts, but since about 1920...
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    separated from Axel Heiberg Island by Nansen and Eureka Sounds, the latter of which narrows to 13 km (8.1 mi). Devon Island is to the south across Jones...
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    Nordenskiöld Archipelago (category Uninhabited islands of Russia)
    Taymyr Island, the largest island of the coastal group Bonevi Island Nansen Island, a large island Pravdy Island Vkhodnoy Island Nablyudeniy Island Bliznetsy...
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  • Cape Nansen (Danish: Kap Nansen) is a headland in the Greenland Sea, east Greenland, Sermersooq municipality. This cape is named after Fridtjof Nansen. Cape...
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  • 80°36′N 54°0′E / 80.600°N 54.000°E / 80.600; 54.000 (Russia)  Russia Nansen Island, Franz Josef Land 80°26′N 54°0′E / 80.433°N 54.000°E / 80.433; 54...
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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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    Fridtjof Nansen. It belongs to the Taymyr Autonomous Okrug of the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation. The island is located...
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  • between. Its mouth lies between Cape J.A.D. Jensen on Sokongen Island to the west and Cape Nansen to the east. Most of the fjord is filled by the Christian...
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    the island of Andøya. Narvik, the last active ship of the class, has been transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten. Fridtjof Nansen-class...
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