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Nansen Island

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Nansen Island is the largest of the islands lying in Wilhelmina Bay off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. [1]

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  1. 18 relations: Adrien de Gerlache, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Treaty System, Antarctica, Belgian Antarctic Expedition, British Antarctic Survey, Charlotte Bay, Danco Coast, Danco Island, Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, Forbidden Plateau, Frederick Cook, Fridtjof Nansen, Gerlache Strait, Graham Land, Svend Foyn, UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, Wilhelmina Bay.

  2. Fridtjof Nansen

Adrien de Gerlache

Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (2 August 1866 – 4 December 1934) was a Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.

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Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.

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Antarctic Treaty System

The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Belgian Antarctic Expedition

The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region.

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British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute.

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Charlotte Bay

Charlotte Bay is a bay on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula indenting the west coast of Graham Land in a southeast direction for, between Reclus Peninsula and Cape Murray. Nansen Island and Charlotte Bay are Danco Coast.

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Danco Coast

The Danco Coast is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard.

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Danco Island

Danco Island or Isla Dedo is an island off Antarctica, long lying in the southern part of Errera Channel, off the west coast of Graham Land. Nansen Island and Danco Island are Danco Coast and islands of Graham Land.

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Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition

The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and the Antarctic Peninsula which took place in the 1955–56 and 1956–57 southern summers.

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Forbidden Plateau

The Forbidden Plateau is a small, hilly plateau in the east of the Vancouver Island Ranges in British Columbia, northwest of Comox Lake roughly between Mount Albert Edward to the southwest and Mount Washington to the northeast.

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Frederick Cook

Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer, physician and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908.

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Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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Gerlache Strait

Gerlache Strait or de Gerlache Strait or Détroit de la Belgica is a channel/strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Graham Land

Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz.

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Svend Foyn

Svend Foyn (July 9, 1809 – November 30, 1894) was a Norwegian whaling, shipping magnate and philanthropist.

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UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI).

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Wilhelmina Bay

Wilhelmina Bay is a bay wide between the Reclus Peninsula and Cape Anna along the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Nansen Island and Wilhelmina Bay are Danco Coast.

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See also

Fridtjof Nansen

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen_Island

Also known as Bearing Island, Brooklyn Island, Delaite Island, Direction Island, Antarctica, Enterprise Island, Fleurus Island, Foyn Harbor, Gouvernoren Harbor, Hobbs Point, Isla Nansen Norte, Nansen Norte Island, North Nansen Island, Northern Nansen Island, Patcha Point, Pythia Island, Racovitza Islands, Solstreif Island, Thor Island (Antarctica), Wyck Island.