Fridtjof Nansen Land

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Fridtjof Nansen Land Fridtjof Nansens Land
Unrecognized territory
1932–1933
Flag of Norway
The southern yellow area is Fridtjof Nansen Land, and the northern Eirik Raudes Land
Capital	Finnsbu (unofficial)
Area
• Coordinates	62°5′0.00″N 42°9′19.25″W / 62.0833333°N 42.1553472°W / 62.0833333; -42.1553472
Government
King
• 1932–1933	Haakon VII
Governor
• 1932–1933	Finn Devold
History
• Norwegian proclamation	12 July 1932
• Territory awarded to Denmark	5 April 1933
Preceded by Succeeded by Denmark Denmark
Today part of	Ammassalik Municipality, now part of Sermersooq

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.

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]

• Susan Barr: Norway, a consistent polar nation? Analysis of an image seen through the history of the Norwegian Polar Institute. Kolofon, Oslo 2003, ISBN 8230000263
• Gunnar Horn: Recent Norwegian Expeditions to South-East Greenland. Norges Svalbard- og Ishavs-undersøkelser, Meddelelse Nr. 45, Oslo 1939
• William J. Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia, vol. 2 "ABC-CLIO", Santa Barbara 2003 ISBN 1576074226, p. 273