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Nansen

noun

Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930). Synonym: Fridtjof Nansen.

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... introduction of steam, has made possible the building up of towns and communities beyond the bounds of varied production." A century or two ago, sailors after a voyage of a year or two, almost always came home with scurvy. Recently Nansen and his men drifted in the Arctic ice for years and remained in good health, because of their supply of canned ...

— Food Guide for War Service at Home • Katharine Blunt, Frances L. Swain, and Florence Powdermaker

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... doubles in size during the winter and extends to the encircling land masses; the ocean floor is about 50% continental shelf (highest percentage of any ocean) with the remainder a central basin interrupted by three submarine ridges (Alpha Cordillera, Nansen Cordillera, ...

— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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... this point lies 2720 below the Centigrade zero. With the liquefaction of hydrogen, a temperature of about -253 deg or -254 deg Centigrade has been reached. So the gap seems not so very great. But like the gap that separated Nansen from the geographical pole, it is a very hard road to travel. How to compass it will be the study of all the low-temperature explorers in the immediate future. Who will first reach it, and when, and how, are questions for the future ...

— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams

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