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Fridtjof Nansen Land
Former Norwegian territory in Greenland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fridtjof Nansen Land (Norwegian: Fridtjof Nansens Land) was a suggested but not officially adopted Norwegian name of a territory on the southern East Coast of Greenland,[1][2] that was proclaimed by Norway on July 12, 1932, and occupied until April 5, 1933. It was named after Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen. The short-lived territory occupied much of King Frederick VI Coast, which had been claimed a century before by the Danish crown.
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The main settlements of the territory were Finnsbu in the north, with Trollbotn and Vogtsbu nearby, and Torgilsbu in the south.
Fridtjof Nansen Land was also a proposed name of the archipelago Franz Josef Land, a territory to which Norway had claims.[3]
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