2011Fridtjof Nansen - 150 Years from the Birth - First Day Cover

Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen (Oslo, October 10, 1861 – Lysaker, May 13, 1930) was one of the world’s most famous polar explorer, politician and diplomat. He was the first who explored the Greenland inland on dog-sledges in 1882 and 1886, and from the 1893 till 1896 he explored the North Sea. He gained the worldwide fame with his expeditions across Greenland and on the ship Fram across Arctic Ocean he reached at the northernmost point of the Arctic.