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.

After a short period of internment on the Lofoten Islands, Schwitters fled to Scotland with his son on the icebreaker Fridtjof Nansen between 8 and 18 June 1940.

A sample Fridtjof Nansen | Nansen passport

Led by Fridtjof Nansen, the Commission for Refugees was established on 27 June 1921 to look after the interests of refugees, including overseeing their repatriation and, when necessary, resettlement.

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.

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

The explorer Fridtjof Nansen explains this apparent fantasy of Pytheas as a mistake of Timaeus.

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.

Using the ship Fram (" Forward "), earlier used by Fridtjof Nansen, he left Norway for the south, leaving Oslo on 3 June 1910.

Fridtjof Nansen was Professor of Zoology and Rector-elect, and was also known as an explorer, humanitarian and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

* Fridtjof Nansen ( Professor of Zoology )

Prior to the establishment of UNHCR, Fridtjof Nansen was the League of Nations High Commissioner of the Nansen International Office for Refugees, from 1922.

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

* Peace – Fridtjof Nansen

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

Designed in 1921 by Fridtjof Nansen, in 1942 they were honored by governments in 52 countries and were the first refugee travel documents.

* Fridtjof Nansen Memorial Lecture 2001

Undeterred, Fridtjof Nansen worked with both Greece and Turkey to gain their acceptance of the proposed population exchange.

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

The first international co-ordination on refugee affairs came with the League of Nations ' appointment of Fridtjof Nansen to the newly created post of High Commissioner for Refugees.

Fridtjof Nansen is known as a friend of the Royal Family.

To provide support to the people, Fridtjof Nansen ( the famous polar explorer ), Martin Andersen Nexø ( a Danish writer ), the Swedish Red Cross Mission, and officers of the American Relief Administration from the United States came to Samara.

The Fridtjof Nansen

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.

Scott also visits Fridtjof Nansen, who insists that a polar expedition must use dogs.

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

Greenland dogs have been used on many expeditions by explorers, the most famous being Fridtjof Nansen.

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.

In 1883, Fridtjof Nansen participated, and was a main attraction, having then won fame by finishing the distance Bergen to Oslo on skis.

In that year, he was also elected the second non-British Lord Rector of St Andrews University ( after Fridtjof Nansen ).

Cape Norway () was where Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen wintered in 1895-96 after failing to reach the North Pole.

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.

This mountain should not be confused for similarly named Mount Fridtjof Nansen which lies in the Queen Maud Mountains although it too was named for Nansen.

This mountain should not be confused with the similarly named Mount Nansen in the Eisenhower Range, although it too was named after Fridtjof Nansen.

In Norway Borchgrevink divided opinion ; Roald Amundsen was a long-time friend and supporter, whereas Fridtjof Nansen, according to Scott, spoke of him as a " tremendous fraud ".

He was the brother of Fridtjof Nansen and through him Sverdrup and Fridtjof Nansen learned to know each other.

In 1892 he was an advisor to Fridtjof Nansen when the ship Fram was built.

Her son Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl ( 1885-1959 ) was also a pianist and composer, who promoted his mother's compositions in his concerts.

By the time Fridtjof Nansen and Otto Sverdrup drifted through the polar ice pack in Fram in 1893 – 1895, the Open Polar Sea theory was defunct.

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

Gunnar Fridtjof Thurmann Sønsteby DSO ( 1918 – 10 May 2012 ) was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement during the German occupation of Norway in World War II.

He was named after Fridtjof Nansen.

Fridtjof Nansen was honored with the 1922 Nobel Prize for Peace, in part for his work as High Commissioner for Relief In Russia.

The deflection of surface currents was first noticed by the Norwegian oceanographer Fridtjof Nansen during the Fram expedition ( 1893 – 1896 ).