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Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (Norwegian: [ˈfrɪ̂tːjɔf ˈnɑ̀nsn̩]; 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and co-founded the Fatherland League.
He funded and organized an expedition to the island of Edgeøya, located in the Svalbard archipelago 1894–1895. [1] At Edgeøya, the bay of Ekrollhamna and the headland of Martinodden are both named after him. [2] [3] He made a first ascent of the mountain of Vågakallen on the island of Austvågøy about 1885. [4]
Gunnar Hansen Horn (25 June 1894 – 15 July 1946) was a Norwegian petroleum geologist and Arctic explorer. He is most renowned as the leader of the Bratvaag Expedition that found the long-lost remains of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 at Kvitøya in 1930. The headland Hornodden of Kvitøya is named after him. [1] [2]
He returned the following year with Martin Mehren and Olav Staxrud. [1] In 1931, Høygaard and Mehren crossed Greenland 's ice sheet from Uummannaq to Nordfjord by dog-sled. [ 2 ] Together with his wife, Unni Munthe Wulfsberg, as well as Harald Waage Rasmussen and Edward Falsen-Krohn, he spent the winter of 1936–1937 studying the Inuit ...
Hallvard Ophuus Devold (8 November 1898 – 10 September 1957) was a Norwegian Arctic explorer, trapper and meteorologist. He was instrumental in the attempt to establish Eric the Red's Land in 1931. His brother Finn Devold (1902–1977) shared his vision and helped to establish a Norwegian station at Finnsbu, SE Greenland. [1]
Arnoldus Schytte Blix (born 4 October 1946) is a Norwegian zoologist and Arctic explorer. He was born in Borre to farmer Erik Gerhard Schytte Blix and nurse Marie Helle. [1] Schytte Blix was appointed professor at the University of Tromsø from 1980.
The Bratvaag Expedition was a Norwegian expedition in 1930 led by Dr. Gunnar Horn, whose official tasks were hunting seals and to study glaciers and seas in the Svalbard Arctic region. The name of the expedition was taken from its ship, M/S Bratvaag of Ålesund , in which captain Peder Eliassen had sailed the Arctic seas for more than twenty years.
1827: First Norwegian expedition to the Arctic, led by Baltazar Mathias Keilhau 1827 : Royal Navy expedition to Spitsbergen led by William Edward Parry reaches 82°45 ′ N [ 5 ] 1828–1830 : Danish expedition led by Wilhelm August Graah tries to locate the Eastern Settlement in southeast Greenland, but does not reach Ammassalik Island .