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| Fridtjof Nansen Land Fridtjof Nansens Land | |||||||||
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| Unrecognized territory | |||||||||
| 1932–1933 | |||||||||
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 The southern yellow area is Fridtjof Nansen Land, and the northernEirik Raudes Land | |||||||||
| Capital | Finnsbu(unofficial) | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| • Coordinates | 62°5′0.00″N42°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 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Ammassalik Municipality, now part ofSermersooq | ||||||||
Fridtjof Nansen Land (Norwegian:Fridtjof Nansens Land) was a suggested but not officially adopted Norwegian name of a territory on the southern East Coast ofGreenland,[1][2] that was proclaimed byNorway on July 12, 1932, and occupied until April 5, 1933. It was named after Norwegian polar explorerFridtjof Nansen. The short-lived territory occupied much ofKing Frederick VI Coast, which had been claimed a century before by the Danish crown.
The main settlements of the territory wereFinnsbu in the north, withTrollbotn andVogtsbu nearby, andTorgilsbu in the south.
Fridtjof Nansen Land was also a proposed name of the archipelagoFranz Josef Land, a territory to which Norway had claims.[3]
