DEATH OF NANSEN
• (.'■y-'j i ;:THE ARCTIC EXPLORER.: , [United Press Association;—By Electric Telegraph-frCopyright]. (Received this • day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 13. Obituary.—Fridtjof Nansen', the “Arctic explorer and author,- aged 6§ years. ■ [Deceased madexbiis first Arctic exploration in 1882;ofollowed 'by a secv ond dn 1889, -wlieh^'hedcrossed"Green-. ; land; 'from 1893 ‘to‘lß96 was engaged ■ in his faihotis expedition in the Fram, "* when he. penetrated farther north than any of his predecessors. Prov fessor of Zoology at Christiania Uni- " versity. Took active part (1905) in ’■'■effecting separation l of Norway from r ‘Swed : eny and'-was -the- first Norwegian Amlbassador to England; resigned 1908. Dij l ’-Jhwdirfe '"Relief. Awarded a NobdK prize for Peace work, Dec., 1923.' Lord Rector of St. ,w ' / ' Andrews University, 1926.]
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