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.

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

Eigil Nansen ( born 18 June 1931 ) is the son of architect and humanist Odd Nansen and the grandson of explorer and humanist Fridtjof Nansen.

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

Mount Fridtjof Nansen is a high massive mountain which dominates the area between the heads of Strom and Axel Heiberg Glaciers, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica.

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.

He is also regarded as important in convincing influential Norwegians supporting a republican government, like Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Arne Garborg and Fridtjof Nansen, to turn and instead support a monarchy.

The award is named after Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian explorer, scientist and politician, who was the first High Commissioner for Refugees at the League of Nations, a predecessor of the UN.

Timothy Fridtjof Flannery ( born 28 January 1956 ) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist.

The Statue of Fridtjof ( Fridtjof den frøkne ) is a landmark which towers 22. 5 metres ( 74 ft ) over the hilltop.

Near the south-east side is Fridtjof Island (), connected to Wiencke by a chain of small rocks and islets.

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 ".

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

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

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

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

It has been chosen by the Royal Norwegian Navy for its new Fridtjof Nansen class frigates and Skjold class patrol boats.

There have been several ships in the Royal Norwegian Navy named after the Norwegian explorer and Nobel peace prize winner Fridtjof Nansen.

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.

* Fridtjof Nansen-Arctic explorer and Nobel Prize Laureate.

Some years later, biographies of heroes of resistance, such as Fridtjof Sælen's Shetlands-Larsen, about Leif Andreas Larsen, and David Armin Howarth's Ni liv.

Some of these projects are the construction of five new Fridtjof Nansen class Aegis frigates, six new Skjold class patrol boats and numerous upgradings of existing models and vessels.

They retained architect Fridtjof Tobiessen to " make the mansion livable.

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 believed that the use of sled dogs was the only effective way to explore the north and used Samoyeds on his polar expeditions.