Fridtjof Nansen won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86 ° 14 ′ during his Nansen's Fram expedition | North Pole expedition of 1893 – 96.

In April 1895 the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen struck out for the Pole on skis after leaving Nansen's icebound ship Fram.

Amundsen had hidden a lifelong desire inspired by Fridtjof Nansen's crossing of Greenland in 1888 and the doomed Franklin expedition.

The aim of the expedition was to explore the unknown areas of the Arctic Ocean, strongly inspired by Fridtjof Nansen's expedition earlier with Fram.

* Kaifas and Suggen, the lead dogs for Fridtjof Nansen's North Pole expedition.

He shipped out with Fridtjof Nansen's Fram expedition in 1893 – 1896, and accompanied Nansen to notch a new Farthest North record near the North Pole on what was then the frozen Arctic Ocean.

An additional new ship, MS Fram, named after Fridtjof Nansen's famous expedition ship Fram, was delivered in 2007.

Sverdrup joined Fridtjof Nansen's expedition of 1888 across Greenland.

Ellef and Amund Ringnes sponsored Fridtjof Nansen's Fram expedition, which they in a short period of time led together with businessman Axel Heiberg and shipowner Thomas Fearnley.

They also sponsored Fridtjof Nansen's Fram expedition, which they at one point led together with businessman Axel Heiberg and shipowner Thomas Fearnley.

Balto was recruited by Fridtjof Nansen for Nansen's Trans-Greenland Expedition in 1888.

In summer 1913 the team crossed the inland ice, the four expedition participants covering a distance twice as long as Fridtjof Nansen's southern Greenland crossing in 1888.

2011 marks the 150th anniversary of Fridtjof Nansen's birth.

He used Fridtjof Nansen's inaccurate map, full of dotted lines where the archipelago was still unexplored.

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany had a statue of Fridtjof raised in the village of Vangsnes in Vik in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway.

* 1861 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate ( d. 1930 )

Historian Beau Riffenburgh states that the promise to Scott " should never ethically have been demanded ", and compares Scott's intransigence on this matter unfavourably with the generous attitudes of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who gave freely of his advice and expertise to all, whether they were potential rivals or not.

* December 10 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1930 )

* May 13 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1861 )

Whilst leading this expedition, Jackson and his men were contacted on 17 June 1896, by the Norwegian arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen and his companion Hjalmar Johansen, whom had not been heard of for three years and were presumed dead, who were trying to reach Spitsbergen by kayak.

* Fridtjof Nansen ( 1861 – 1930 ) – Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat.

Åge Fridtjof Hareide ( born 23 September 1953 in Hareid ) is a Norwegian football manager and former player currently managing Helsinborg in Allsvenskan.

Some notable sailing ships in the end of the Age of Sail also featured the egg-shaped form alike that of Pomor boats, for example the famous Fram, used by Fridtjof Nansen and other great Norwegian Polar explorers.

The Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen ( 1920 ) made similar claims, stating that hundreds of ships anchored along the flat of Smeerenburg where ten thousand people visited a complete town with stalls and streets.

1914 photograph by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen of a group of Ket around a campfire.

Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition ( 1901 – 04 ), and named for Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer from whom Capt.

A biographer of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen has suggested that, in her husband's absence, she began a brief affair with Nansen, the mentor of Scott's rival Amundsen.

* Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel laureate

* Odd Nansen, Norwegian architect and humanitarian ; son of Fridtjof Nansen

* Fridtjof Nansen class frigate, the main surface combatant units of the Royal Norwegian Navy

* HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen OPV, the first ship in the Norwegian armed forces to be built specially to perform coast guard and fishery protection duties in the Arctic

* HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen ( F310 ), a frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy

Internal waves are the source of a curious phenomenon called dead water, first reported by the Norwegian oceanographer Fridtjof Nansen, in which a boat may experience strong resistance to forward motion in apparently calm conditions.

for the new CODAG propelled Fridtjof Nansen class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy, the gear ratio for the diesel engine is changed from about 1: 7. 7 ( engine: propeller ) for diesel-only to 1: 5. 3 when in diesel-and-turbine mode.

Ski touring formed the basis of the polar expeditions of Norwegian explorers like Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen.

* HNoMS Roald Amundsen, Fridtjof Nansen class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy

Lange began his political career in the Norwegian right-wing Fatherland League organisation, which had been founded in 1925 by prominent figures such as Christian Michelsen and Fridtjof Nansen.

The frigate KNM Fridtjof Nansen of the Royal Norwegian Navy in Oslo.

In 1893, Fridtjof Nansen allowed his ship " Fram " to be frozen in the Arctic ice.

Explorers like Roald Amundsen, Umberto Nobile and Fridtjof Nansen made use of the know-how in Tromsø on the conditions in the Arctic, and often recruited their crew in the city.

* Fridtjof Nansen ( 1911 ) In Northern Mists ; Arctic exploration in early times.

Nansen Island was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition ( 1897 – 1899 ) under Adrien de Gerlache and named for Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, noted Arctic explorer.

First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named " Ile Nansen " after Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer.