Nansen pronounced the vessel fit, and with thousands of well ... His desk chair is turned toward the window, facing the only direction Dr. Fridtjof Nansen ever knew—forward.

A busy week for Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina with some fourteen cruise vessels, mostly heading ... Friday should see the Fridtjof Nansen, and Greg Mortimer. Ushuaia authorities are more ...

Beginning at the North Pole, the pair had skied 600 miles to this spot off the northern coast of Franz Josef Land, the remote Siberian archipelago where Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen had ...

The Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen became the first head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees. Everyone assumed that his appointment would be temporary, like his earlier and ...

The UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award honours individuals, groups and organizations who go above and beyond the call of duty to protect refugees, displaced and stateless people. Established in 1954, the ...