A type of this conveyance on runners bears the name of Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen
... arctic explorer in Greenland and Canada home to a munificent... [DOC] [TLE] Arctic Region articles - Scribd [PAR] Subsequent Arctic exploration was largely motivated by the European need for ... 
Jonassen Bering, who in 1728 discovered the strait that bears his name and that 
... crossed for the first time in 1888 by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen.