Fridtjof Nansen

December 22, 2008 10:30 PM

Fridtjof Nansen's Polar Saga. Part One: 1,000 Days in the Ice "It was an outlandish idea: freeze a ship in the Arctic Ocean and ride the drifting ice across the North Pole." Part Two: Chasing Nansen's Ghost. "Two adventurers set out across the Arctic in the footsteps of Norway's pioneering polar explorer."
posted by homunculus (3 comments total)

And his First name is Fridge Off?

Espoiterical, or whatever it is you kiddies say.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 11:06 PM on December 22, 2008

Nansen did some good stuff, but was also a tremendous reactionary asshole, co-founding a nationalist anti-socialist organization in the 20s that engaged in union busting and prevented workers' demonstrations, and he's also in part responsible for Norway becoming a constitutional monarchy instead of a republic after the dissolution of the union with Sweden.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 1:14 AM on December 23, 2008 [1 favorite]

...and designer of the Nansen bottle ...
posted by aldus_manutius at 7:20 AM on December 23, 2008