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Fridtjof Nansen was born on Oct. 10, 1861, in Store-Frøen, Norway. Nansen was an explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895–96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910–14). For his relief work after World War I he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace (1922). Nansen died in 1930.
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