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Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen, 1915.
The Fram expedition, led by Fridtjof Nansen, involved driving the ship into the Arctic pack ice to drift across the ocean. This drift lasted for almost three years, beginning in 1893 and concluding with the vessel's release north of Svalbard in 1896.1