List of polar explorers
For the main articles on polar exploration, see Arctic exploration and List of Antarctic expeditions.
[1]This list is for recognised pioneering explorers of the polar regions. It does not include subsequent travellers and expeditions.
Polar explorers
- Jameson Adams
- Stian Aker
- Roald Amundsen
- Salomon August Andrée
- Piotr Fyodorovich Anjou
- Josée Auclair
- Ann Bancroft
- Willem Barents
- Michael Barne
- Robert Bartlett
- Fabian von Bellingshausen
- Olav Bjaaland
- Carsten Borchgrevink
- Jon Bowermaster
- Henry Robertson Bowers
- Louise Arner Boyd
- Edward Bransfield
- Philip Brocklehurst
- William Speirs Bruce
- Daniel Byles
- Richard Evelyn Byrd
- Todd Carmichael
- Umberto Cagni
- Jacques Cartier
- Semion Chelyuskin
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- George Comer
- Sebastian Copeland
- Frederick A. Cook
- James Cook
- Henry Cookson
- Albert P. Crary
- Tom Crean
- Francis Crozier
- Edgeworth David
- Jason De Carteret
- Edwin de Haven
- George W. De Long
- George J. Dufek
- Jules Dumont d'Urville
- Lincoln Ellsworth
- Edward Evans
- Edgar Evans
- Sir Ranulph Fiennes
- John Franklin
- Peter Freuchen
- Martin Frobisher
- Vivian Fuchs
- Tobias Furneaux
- Adrien de Gerlache
- Adolphus Greely
- Pen Hadow
- Charles Francis Hall
- Helmer Hanssen
- Bernhard Hantzsch
- Sverre Hassel
- Adrian Hayes
- Isaac Israel Hayes
- Samuel Hearne
- Matthew A. Henson
- Matthew Henson
- Wally Herbert
- Alex Hibbert
- Edmund Hillary
- John Hornby
- Henry Hudson
- Edward Israel
- Antony Jinman
- Erling Kagge
- Elisha Kent Kane
- Sydney L. Kirkby
- Gerald Ketchum
- Paul Landry
- Khariton Laptev
- Christian Leden
- Ernest de Koven Leffingwell
- Alistair Mackay
- Alexander MacKenzie
- Cecil Madigan
- Rune Malterud
- Donal T. Manahan
- Albert Hastings Markham
- Eric Marshall
- Douglas Mawson
- Francis Leopold McClintock
- Jim McNeill
- Janice Meek
- Fridtjof Nansen
- George Nares
- Edward W Nelson
- Umberto Nobile
- Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
- Børge Ousland
- Nathaniel Palmer
- William Parry
- Charlie Paton
- Robert Edwin Peary
- Eric Philips
- Ralph Plaisted
- Richard Profit
- Lewis Gordon Pugh
- Emil Racovita
- Pierre-Esprit Radisson
- John Rae
- Knud Rasmussen
- Andrew Regan
- George W. Rice
- John Richardson
- Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen
- Alfred Ritscher
- Edith Ronne
- Finn Ronne
- James Clark Ross
- John Ross
- Yakov Sannikov
- Ben Saunders
- Otto Schmidt
- William Scoresby
- Robert Falcon Scott
- Georgy Sedov
- Ernest Shackleton
- Nobu Shirase
- Paul Siple
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
- Will Steger
- Otto Sverdrup
- Robert Swan
- Boris Vilkitsky
- Richard Weber
- James Weddell
- Walter Wellman
- Frank Wild
- Hubert Wilkins
- Oscar Wisting
- Frank Worsley
See also
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References
- ↑ wikipedia, Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
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