The paper studies the existence of fixed points for some nonlinear (ws)-compact, weakly condensing and strictly quasibounded operators defined on an unbounded closed convex subset of a Banach space. Applications of the newly developed fixed point theorems are also discussed for proving the existence of positive eigenvalues and surjectivity of quasibounded operators in similar situations. The main condition in our results is formulated in terms of axiomatic measures of weak noncompactness.