Vidkun Quisling was such a traitor during Nazi Germany’s occupation of Norway during World War II that his name became ...

The magazine is named after Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, the man behind the Nansen passport which allowed refugees safe passage into other countries in the aftermath of the First World War.

His desk chair is turned toward the window, facing the only direction Dr. Fridtjof Nansen ever knew—forward.

Felix Bakhchinyan, founding director of the Fridtjof Nansen Foundation of Armenia and director of Fridtjof Nansen Museum, ...

Beginning at the North Pole, the pair had skied 600 miles to this spot off the northern coast of Franz Josef Land, the remote Siberian archipelago where Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen had ...

At dawn, veteran fisherman Joseph Odonkor prepares his canoe for another day at sea, however, despite his decades of ...

Carrying a maximum of 530 passengers, MS Fridtjof Nansen is the second of Hurtigruten's purpose-built expedition vessels and is the near-identical twin sister of MS Roald Amundsen. Built at the ...

The educational youth program is offered on the MS Roald Amundsen, MS Fridtjof Nansen, and MS Otto Sverdrup. Children are welcomed onboard Hurtigruten Expeditions, but it's important to note that they ...

The Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen became the first head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees. Everyone assumed that his appointment would be temporary, like his earlier and ...

The UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award honours individuals, groups and organizations who go above and beyond the call of duty to protect refugees, displaced and stateless people. Established in 1954, the ...

But why shouldn't China be interested in the Arctic?" said Gørild Heggelund of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo. "They are interested in science, especially in regard to how changes in the ...