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Dr. Fridjof Nansen

Dr. Fridjof Nansen, explorer, was born near

Christiania, Norway, Oct. 10th, 1861. He was

educated at the University of Christiania, and

was a naturalist by training. He first visited

Greenland in 1882, and in 1888-1889 crossed S.

Greenland in snow shoes. In June, 1893,

Nansen sailed from Christiania in the

Fram

, a

vessel of 402 tons, intending to drift across the

North Pole to Greenland. He reached the

highest latitude then attained 86° 14

‘

.

Nansen was honored on a corkscrew knife

produced by Carl Schmidt Sohn, Solingen,

Germany and a tobacco card issued by John

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