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Fridtjof Nansen
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Fridtjof Nansen 

a mountain massif in the Queen Maud Range, Antarctica, near the southern extremity of the Ross Ice Shelf. Elevation, 4,180 m. The massif was discovered in 1911 by R. Amundsen’s Norwegian antarctic expedition and is named in honor of F. Nansen.
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95 Paperback G700 In September of 1893, Fridtjof Nansen and a crew on the schooner Fram attempted to be the first to reach the North Pole.
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Professor John Simpson of Bangor university's School of Ocean Sciences is to receive the 2008 Fridtjof Nansen Medal, awarded by the European Geosciences Union at the European Geophysical Union Assembly in Vienna where he will also deliver the Nansen Lecture.
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The world needs to rediscover the spirit and example of Fridtjof Nansen.
In praise of ... Fridtjof Nansen by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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