biography
pronunciation:
[frityof]
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| (1861–1930)
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| Explorer, born near Oslo, Norway. He studied at Oslo University and later at Naples. In 1882 he made a voyage into the Arctic regions in the sealer Viking, and on his return was made keeper of the natural history department of the museum at Bergen. In 1888 he journeyed across Greenland E–W, but his great achievement was his scheme for reaching the North Pole by letting his ship, The Fram, get frozen into the ice N of Siberia (1883) and drift with a current setting towards Greenland; the boat reached 84°4′, and after a further voyage on foot, he achieved 86°14′, the highest latitude then attained. The first Norwegian ambassador in London (1906–8), he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for Russian relief work (1922), and he did much for the League of Nations. |
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