Nansen Island (Kara Sea) especially during Operation Wunderland. In some maps Nansen Island is named simply as Nansena. This island should not be confused with another Russian island called Nansen Island, which is part of Franz Josef Land, in the Arctic Ocean. Both islands are named in the honor and memory of Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen. Nansen Island (Kara Sea) Nansen Island (), is a long and narrow island in the coast of the Kara Sea. Its length is and its average width about . This island is located in an area of skerries right off the western coast of the Taymyr Peninsula. Nansen
Lousia Beaufort journals which are among the manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College. Also in the Library is a book of watercolours of antiquities which Beaufort dedicated to her brother Admiral Francis Beaufort in 1857. The journal, of which these are the illustrations, is at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Lousia Beaufort Louisa Catherine Beaufort (1781 - 1863 ) was an Irish antiquarian, author and artist. Beaufort was the daughter of Rev Daniel Augustus Beaufort and Mary Waller. Her grandfather was from the Huguenot community in London and moved to Ireland as chaplain to the viceroy. She had two sisters,