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TIL that after aborting their attempt to reach the North Pole. Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen would spend over a year stranded on Franz Josef Land before being rescued by Frederick George Jackson. A man Nansen had rejected from joining his North Pole expedition due to not being Norwegian.

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