The Gauss expedition of 1901–1903 (also known as the Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903) was the first German expedition to Antarctica. It was led...

Terrestrial The Gauss expedition, the first German expedition to Antarctica (1901–1903) The ship Gauss, used in the Gauss expedition to the Antarctic...

South Polar expedition with the ship Gauss to explore the unknown area of Antarctica lying south of the Kerguelen Islands. The expedition started from...

Germany began to focus on Antarctica. The first German expedition to Antarctica was the Gauss expedition from 1901 to 1903. Led by Arctic veteran and geology...

1901–1903 – Gauss expedition (or First German Antarctic Expedition) – led by Erich von Drygalski 1901–1903 – Swedish Antarctic Expedition – led by Otto...

area of the Antarctic continent (publicly denied as a goal before the expedition ended); Determining the feasibility of establishing, maintaining, and...

Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two...

Gauss was a ship built in Germany specially for polar exploration, named after the mathematician and physical scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Purchased...

19th century, and ended after the First World War; the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922 is often cited by historians as the dividing line between...

S. Naval expedition into Antarctic waters. In 1929, Admiral Richard E. Byrd established a naval base at Little America I, led an expedition to explore...

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived...

recognized. The area was discovered on 22 February 1902, during the Gauss expedition of 1901–1903 led by Arctic veteran and geologist Erich von Drygalski...

1933; the same honor was also awarded to Erich von Drygalski for his Gauss Expedition to the Antarctic; and to Alfred Philippson for his research on the...

research expeditions to the Antarctic in 1956; the overall research program, Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) named each year's expedition with...

The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–1884 (a.k.a. the Greely Expedition) to Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic was led by...

Drygalski used Kamchatka sled dogs in his 1901–1903 Gauss expedition, faring better than previous expeditions because his dogs were used to the cold and he...

The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships...

The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by...

Adrien de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899. From 1903 to 1906, he led the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest...

This list of Arctic expeditions is a timeline of historic Arctic exploration and explorers of the Arctic. 1472: Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst mark the...

scientific work of the expedition was carried out in a winter station established on the sea ice. When after more than a year Gauss was freed, Drygalski...

which culminated in the First German Antarctica Expedition in 1901, the so-called Gauss expedition. In 1890 he co-authored the first cloud atlas. Polar...

Drygalski for his Gauss Expedition to the Antarctic; and to Alfred Philippson for his research on the Aegean Region. In 1930, the expedition excavated ten...

Sir James Clark Ross, who explored the Arctic with him, and later led expeditions to Antarctica. John Ross was born in Balsarroch, West Galloway, Scotland...

polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and...

area was mostly mapped in 1848–1854 by ships looking for Franklin's lost expedition. The first crossing was made by Roald Amundsen in 1903–1906. He used a...

The McClure Arctic expedition, one of many attempts to find the missing Franklin expedition, was significant for being the first to successfully discover...

The Great Northern Expedition (Russian: Великая Северная экспедиция) or Second Kamchatka Expedition (Russian: Вторая Камчатская экспедиция) was one of...

1946-47. Named by the ANCA for Emil Philippi, geologist with the Gauss expedition under Erich von Drygalski, 1901-03, who made scientific observations...

The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition (1921–22) was Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...