Nansen Fjord is a fjord in King Christian IX Land, Eastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality. This fjord lies in an indented area of...

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 after...

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (Norwegian: [ˈfrɪ̂tːjɔf ˈnɑ̀nsn̩]; 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate...

geography, a fjord or fiord (/ˈfjɔːrd, fiːˈɔːrd/ ) is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts...

important fjords of Greenland: Alanngorsuaq Fjord Aleqatsiaq Fjord Alluitsup Kangerlua (Lichtenau Fjord) Ameralik Fjord Amerloq Fjord Ammassalik Fjord Ananap...

Koch Fjord and Frederick E. Hyde Fjord the "Nansen-Jensen Alps", with the westernmost foothills in Nansen Land, stretching past the De Long Fjord area...

take pretty nearly as long to return. Nansen's expedition left sealer Jason near Sermilik Fjord, where Nansen had initially decided to start the crossing...

kilometres (12 mi) away, Nansen decided to launch the small boats; they were within sight of the Sermilik Fjord, which Nansen had deemed a good place to...

located on Sokongen Island, between the Nansen Fjord and the J.A.D. Jensen Fjord, 15 km to the WSW of Cape Nansen, north of which the Greenland Sea begins...

fjord is named after arctic explorer George W. De Long. De Long Fjord opens to the northwest east of Nansen Land and to the west of Weyprecht Fjord,...

Fridtjof Nansen. Cape Nansen is an important geographical landmark. Cape Nansen is located to the northeast of the mouth of the Nansen Fjord in an indented area...

expedition crossed the range through the Polkorridoren pass from Frigg Fjord to Sands Fjord. The highest peak, Helvetia Tinde was first climbed in 1969 by the...

Sokongen is a coastal island that lies between the Nansen Fjord to the northeast and the J.A.D. Jensen Fjord to the southwest. It is located in an indented...

this area is not deeply indented. Fjords, such as Nansen Fjord and Kivioq Fjord, are relatively short. In some fjords the Greenland ice sheet comes down...

Blosseville Coast east of Nansen Fjord. Its mouth lies between Cape Garde to the west and Cape Normann to the east. The fjord is oriented in a NW/SE direction...

later recovered. Jewell Fjord opens to the northwest to the Lincoln Sea on the shore of Nansen Land, southwest of Gardiner Fjord and northeast of Mascart...

Sverdrup Island is located west of Nansen Land, to the north of Freuchen Land off the mouth of J.P. Koch Fjord in the Lincoln Sea, and to the east of...

yarns, was first described for science by Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian Arctic explorer. Nansen wrote the following from his ship Fram in August 1893...

area around Nanusek during hunting trips up and down the coast. Fridtjof Nansen wrote about them towards the end of the 19th century: The woman-boat in...

3 mi) from the mouth of the fjord in 1932. Following sovereignty claims by Norway under the official name Fridtjof Nansen Land on the southeast coast...

Tanquary Fiord is a fjord on the north coast of the Arctic Archipelago's Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the Quttinirpaaq National...

Peter Koch (1870 – 1928), The fjord opens to the northwest to the east of Freuchen Land and the south and west of Nansen Land. The Hans Tausen Ice Cap...

Christiania Fjord, the Fram was greeted with 17 salutes from Akershus Fortress. All crew members were awarded the Fram's Silver Medal, Sverdrup, like Nansen, was...

are many small coastal islands, as well as the fjord named "Comanche Bay" during WWII. Fridtjof Nansen: The Crossing of Greenland Søren Norby Islands...

dependent on hunting muskoxen for survival. The ruins near the head of Frigg Fjord are the northernmost remains of settlements in human history. This region...

off the western side of the Nansen Land Peninsula on the other side of the Thomas Thomsen Fjord, part of the De Long Fjord system. Its eastern shore forms...

roughly north–south direction until its terminus at the head of the Nansen Fjord in the East Greenland coast. This fast-flowing glacier is similar in...

Year 1932–33. During World War II, in September 1940, patrol boat Fridtjof Nansen of the Free Norwegian Navy, destroyed the radio equipment, leaving Myggbukta...

western border of Oslo proper. To the south-east Lysaker is bordered by the fjord. To the south-west is the Fornebu area, where one of Oslos two airports...

north of J.P. Koch Fjord and Frederick E. Hyde Fjord the "Nansen-Jensen Alps", with the westernmost foothills in neighboring Nansen Land, stretching past...