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Where did Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen spend the winter of 1895â96?
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Fridtjof Nansen, 1915.
During their 1895â96 expedition, Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen wintered on Frederick Jackson Island, located within the Franz Josef Land archipelago.
They stayed there from August 26, 1895, to May 19, 1896, after being forced to turn back from their attempt to reach the North Pole. To survive the winter, they constructed a stone hut covered with walrus hides and subsisted primarily on polar bear and walrus meat, utilizing the blubber as fuel.1