Nansen (disambiguation)
Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930) was a Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate.
Nansen may also refer to:
People
- Odd Nansen (1901–1973), Norwegian architect and humanitarian; son of Fridtjof Nansen
- Eigil Nansen (1931–2017), athlete and architect; son of Odd Nansen
- Hans Nansen (1598–1667), Danish statesman
- Peter Nansen (1861–1918), Danish novelist, journalist, and publisher
- Betty Nansen (1873–1943), Danish actress and theater director
- Nansen Fugan, Japanese rendering of Nanquan Puyuan (Chinese: 南泉普願 (748–835) Zen Buddhist monk and teacher of Zhaozhou Congshen
- Are Nansen, founder of Toronto art collective SPAY (now defunct), and columnist for magazine Steel Bananas
Ships
- Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate, the main surface combatant units of the Royal Norwegian Navy
- HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (1930), the first ship in the Norwegian armed forces to be built specially to perform coast guard and fishery protection duties in the Arctic
- HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (F310), a 2004 frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy
Places
- Mount Nansen (Antarctica)
- Mount Fridtjof Nansen, Antarctica
- Mount Nansen (Yukon) in Yukon, Canada
- Nansen Island (disambiguation)
- Nansen Land, Greenland
- Nansen (lunar crater)
- Nansen (Martian crater)
- Nansen Sound, a strait in Nunavut, Canada, between Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island
Organisations
- Nansen International Office for Refugees (French: Office international Nansen pour les réfugiés), an organization of the League of Nations in charge of refugees from war areas from 1930 to 1939
- Nansen Institute, an independent research foundation in Norway
- Nansenhjelpen, also known as Nansen Relief in English, a humanitarian organization to provide safe haven and assistance in Norway for Jewish refugees from areas in Europe under Nazi control
Other
- Nansen (biography), a 1940 children's biography of the explorer by Anna Gertrude Hall
- Nansen (cat), ship's cat on Belgica during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1897–98
- Nansen passport, internationally recognized identity cards first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees
- Nansen bottle, an oceanographic sampling device
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