A type of this conveyance on runners bears the name of Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen
While Fridtjof Nansen was swimming across the rifts in the ice after Polar bears, 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Fridtjof Nansen, 1861-1893" - Internet Archive [PAR] We have only to read the tragic record of Arctic exploration in the past to realise 
.... Bear Island lies about midway between the North Cape and Grenland, and is 
.... His only son was called Hans Leierdahl Nansen.