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...
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scurvy outbreak. Cartographic expeditions to Greenland List of Arctic expeditions Media related to British Arctic Expedition 1875 at Wikimedia Commons Lewis...
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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...
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North Pole. Farthest North List of polar explorers List of Arctic expeditions List of Arctic exploration vessels List of firsts in the Geographic North...
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This is a list of lost expeditions. Williams, Glyn. Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage. London, England: Penguin UK, 2009. ISBN 978-0-14-193258-3...
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of European exploration List of circumnavigations List of Arctic expeditions Timeline of Solar System exploration Timeline of space exploration List of...
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This list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been...
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Northwest Passage (redirect from Amundsen expedition)
Arctic Bridge Arctic exploration Discovery of North-West Passage Act 1744 List of Arctic expeditions Northern Sea Route Northwest Passage expedition of...
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Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916 was a scientific expedition in the Arctic Circle organized and led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. The expedition was originally...
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Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was a failed Swedish effort to reach the North Pole, resulting in the deaths of all three expedition members...
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is a list of recognised pioneering expeditions to Greenland that contributed to the cartography of the territory. Geography of Greenland Arctic exploration...
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Russell Owen (category Place of death missing)
Geography portal List of Antarctic expeditions List of Arctic expeditions Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize...
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Francis Crozier (category Irish Arctic explorers)
officer of the Royal Navy and polar explorer who participated in six expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. In 1843, he became a Fellow of the Royal...
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Canadian Arctic in 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin and using the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. The following is a complete list of the ships'...
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Denmark and Norway over East Greenland. Arctic exploration List of Arctic expeditions Cartographic expeditions to Greenland King Frederick VIII Land Cape...
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IV's expeditions were sent by King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway to Greenland and Arctic waterways during the years 1605–1607. The expeditions were commissioned...
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is now a ruin. Cartographic expeditions to Greenland List of Arctic expeditions Knuth, E. (1942). Report on the expedition and on subsequent work at the...
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William Edward Parry (redirect from First Parry expedition)
the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry... London (1826) Arctic exploration Farthest North Northwest Passage List of Arctic expeditions Chisholm 1911...
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Quark Expeditions is a travel company that offers polar region expeditions aboard expedition ships and icebreakers. Quark Expeditions was founded in 1985...
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against Bessels. List of Arctic expeditions The Second Grinnell expedition of 1853–1855: set out to determine the fate of Franklin's expedition The Schwatka...
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Fram (ship) (category Arctic exploration vessels)
Fram ("Forward") is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup...
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The Arctic (/ˈɑːrktɪk/ or /ˈɑːrtɪk/) (from Greek ἄρκτος, 'bear') is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic region, from the...
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HMS Terror (1813) (category Shipwrecks of the Canadian Arctic coast)
and participated in George Back's Arctic expedition of 1836–1837, the successful Ross expedition to the Antarctic of 1839 to 1843, and Sir John Franklin's...
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of the past. See also List of Arctic expeditions and List of Antarctic expeditions. From the early 15th century to the early 17th century the Age of Discovery...
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Septentrionalis" at the northern edge of their charts. The few expeditions to penetrate much beyond the Arctic Circle in that era added only small islands...
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Sverdrup's Fram expedition (1898–1902) took place in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Second Fram Voyage or Second Fram Expedition; Norwegian: Den andre...
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The Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881, officially called the U.S. Arctic Expedition, was an attempt led by George W. De Long to reach the North Pole by...
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Donald Baxter MacMillan (category American explorers of the Arctic)
made over 30 expeditions to the Arctic during his 46-year career. He pioneered the use of radios, airplanes, and electricity in the Arctic and put together...
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This list is for recognised pioneering explorers of the polar regions. It does not include subsequent travelers and expeditions. Jameson Adams Mark Agnew...
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Robert Peary (redirect from Peary North Pole expedition)
who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long credited as being the discoverer of the geographic North...
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