The first meeting with a stranger. Approximately 15 months after Nansen and Johansen's departure from their friends in the Arctic Ocean, and approximately 3 years after they had left Norway. Frederick George Jackson, British officer and arctic researcher, greets Fridtjof Nansen. The photo was arranged 6 days after the meeting actually took place June 17, 1896. One of the pictures from the expedition with arctic ship toward the North Pole in the period June 24, 1893 to August 13, 1896. According to the plan, the ship was to drift in the ice with the ocean current from the coast of Siberia across the North Pole to Greenland. In March 1895, Fridtjof Nansen, together with a companion, set out with dogsledges on a hazardous expedition on skis, in an attempt to reach the pole itself.
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