HURTIGRUTEN will mark 125 years of operations by naming its battery-hybrid-powered Fridtjof Nansen on Svalbard. The cruise line will host the ship’s naming ceremony in Longyearbyen on 14 Sep in the northernmost naming ceremony ever to be held for a pax vessel. Fridtjof Nansen is named after the Norwegian polymath...
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HURTIGRUTEN will mark 125 years of operations by naming its battery-hybrid-powered Fridtjof Nansen on Svalbard.
The cruise line will host the ship’s naming ceremony in Longyearbyen on 14 Sep in the northernmost naming ceremony ever to be held for a pax vessel.
Fridtjof Nansen is named after the Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who led the team which made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis.
The ship will be named by breaking a chunk of ice rather than the traditional bottle of champagne, just as sister ship Roald Amundsen was when she was the first ship ever to be named in Antarctica in 2019.
Hurtigruten Expeditions Chief Executive Officer Asta Lassesen said the cruise line could not think of a better place to name Fridtjof Nansen.
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