Nansen (disambiguation)

Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930) was a Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate.

Nansen may also refer to:

People

  • Nansen (surname)
  • Nansen Fugan, the Japanese name for the Tang dynasty Chan (Zen) Buddhist master Nanquan Puyuan

Ships

  • Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate, the main surface combatant units of the Royal Norwegian Navy
  • HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (1930), a Norwegian coast guard ship
  • HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (F310), a 2004 frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy

Places

  • Cape Nansen, headland in the Greenland Sea, east Greenland
  • Mount Nansen (Antarctica)
  • Mount Fridtjof Nansen, Antarctica
  • Mount Nansen (Yukon) in Yukon, Canada
  • Nansen Island (disambiguation)
  • Nansen Land, Greenland
  • Nansen (lunar crater)
  • Nansen (Martian crater)
  • Nansen Sound, a strait in Nunavut, Canada, between Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island
  • Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula, SE Greenland

Organisations

  • Nansen International Office for Refugees (French: Office international Nansen pour les réfugiés), a 1930–1939 League of Nations organization
  • Nansen Institute, an independent research foundation in Norway
  • Nansenhjelpen, also known as Nansen Relief in English, a Norwegian humanitarian organisation

Other

  • The Nansen Refugee Award
  • Nansen (biography), a 1940 children's biography of the explorer by Anna Gertrude Hall
  • Nansen (cat), ship's cat on Belgica during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1897–98
  • Nansen passport, internationally recognized identity cards first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees
  • Nansen bottle, an oceanographic sampling device
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