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    Gjelsvik Peak, Mount Fridtjof Nansen, Webster Knob and Mount Balchen. Peaks further east include Bell Peak, Mount Cohen, Zigzag Bluff and Mount Betty, to 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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    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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  • Greenland Mount Nansen (Antarctica) Mount Fridtjof Nansen, Antarctica Mount Nansen (Yukon) in Yukon, Canada Nansen Island (disambiguation) Nansen Land, Greenland...
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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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  • Mount Nansen may refer to: Mount Nansen (Antarctica) Mount Fridtjof Nansen in Antarctica Mount Nansen (Yukon) in Yukon, Canada This disambiguation page...
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    HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen is a frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Commissioned on 5 April 2006, she is the lead ship of the Fridtjof Nansen class of warships...
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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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    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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    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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  • A Nansen bottle is a device for obtaining samples of water at a specific depth. It was designed in 1894 by Fridtjof Nansen and further developed by Shale...
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    Axel Heiberg Glacier descends from the polar plateau between Mount Fridtjof Nansen and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen. Named by the Southern Party of the...
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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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    HNoMS Roald Amundsen (F311) (category Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates)
    HNoMS Roald Amundsen is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by the Spanish shipbuilders Navantia, in Ferrol, Roald Amundsen...
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  • a steep valley glacier flowing northeast from the north side of Mount Fridtjof Nansen to the head of the Ross Ice Shelf, flanked on the northwest by the...
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    HNoMS Helge Ingstad (F313) (category Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates)
    HNoMS Helge Ingstad was a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. The vessel was ordered on 23 June 2000 and constructed by Navantia...
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    broken by a transverse fault which displaces the horst northward to Mount Wade (Mount Bush), a beacon sandstone massif rising to at least 14,000 feet above...
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  • Mount Nansen is a deeply eroded Mid-Cretaceous stratovolcano located 53 km (33 mi) west of Carmacks and 10 km (6.2 mi) west of Victoria Mountain in the...
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  • Glacier, a steep valley glacier flowing from the north side of Mount Fridtjof Nansen to the head of the Ross Ice Shelf Strom Lake, a lake in Minnesota...
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    Sejong the Great class, Australian Hobart class, and the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen class also use the Aegis system. When the F-100 was designed, the United...
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    Eisenhower Range, 11 mi S of Mount Baxter, in Victoria Land. Discovered by the BrNAE, 1901-04, and named for Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer...
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    Ships of the class operated until 2007, when they were replaced by the Fridtjof Nansen class. All ships were built at the Navy Main Yard in Horten, Norway...
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    over the Pole in November 1929, Gould and his companions climbed Mount Fridtjof Nansen to investigate its geology. The layered sandstones that Gould found...
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    Mountains rise prominently forming the western wall, and the massif of Mount Fridtjof Nansen, about 13,156 feet high, forms the eastern flank of the Liv Glacier...
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    harbours in 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...
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    such as Captain Robert Bartlett, Ernest Shackleton, Richard E. Byrd, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Falcon Scott, George W. DeLong, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson...
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  • now 400 m lower Erschliessung 3, 111-2 Edmond S. Meany, First Ascent of Mount Adams in The Mountaineer, December 1917, vol.X, p.26-28. Studer, Vol 2,...
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    polar explorers. The fabric's first arctic field test was performed by Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian scientist, explorer, diplomat, and eventual Nobel Peace...
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  • Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) as "an ardent, even hawkish Armenophile." Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), a Norwegian explorer, has been described as a "friend...
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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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