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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Wilhelmina Bay (redirect from Nansen Island)
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 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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Greenland Mount Nansen (Antarctica) Mount Fridtjof Nansen, Antarctica Mount Nansen (Yukon) in Yukon, Canada Nansen Island (disambiguation) Nansen Land, Greenland...
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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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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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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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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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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 passports, originally and officially stateless persons passports, were internationally recognized refugee travel documents from 1922 to 1938, first...
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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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Reclus Peninsula (redirect from Gaston Islands)
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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Nansen Sound is an uninhabited strait in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It lies between western Grant Land on Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island...
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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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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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(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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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 (redirect from Island of Greenland)
"Greenland" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. XI (9th ed.). pp. 166–171. Nansen, Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg (1911). "Greenland" . Encyclopædia Britannica...
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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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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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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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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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Lavoisier Island was named 'Ile Nansen' after Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer. The name was changed in 1960 to avoid confusion with nearby Nansen Island...
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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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Terra Nova Bay (redirect from Markham Island)
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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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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northwest and Ovalnyy Island 2.3 kilometers (1.4 mi) to the northeast. Hovgaard Island lies about 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) north of Nansen Island and less than 11...
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Harbor: anchorage between Nansen Island and Enterprise Island in Wilhelmina Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Foynøya: an island in the Arctic north of...
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Jensen Land in the east. Nansen Land is located to the northeast of Freuchen Land, east of Sverdrup Island, and west of Borup Island and Amundsen Land. The...
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