The Polaris expedition of 1871–1873 was one of the first serious attempts to reach the North Pole after that of British naval officer Sir Edward Parry...
37 KB (5,005 words) - 20:21, 26 April 2024
North magnetic pole (redirect from Project Polaris)
"magnetic island" somewhere in the far north (see Rupes Nigra), or to Polaris, the pole star. The idea that Earth itself acts as essentially a giant...
25 KB (2,836 words) - 16:32, 14 December 2024
Look up Polaris, polaris, Poláris, or poláris in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Polaris is a star, also known as the North Star. Polaris may also refer...
6 KB (771 words) - 05:33, 6 August 2024
Polaris Inc. is an American automotive manufacturer headquartered in Medina, Minnesota, United States. Polaris was founded in Roseau, Minnesota, where...
36 KB (3,456 words) - 12:12, 25 November 2024
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...
128 KB (13,879 words) - 13:48, 21 December 2024
a 300-ton barquentine called Polaris, which had been built for the Belgian explorer Adrien de Gerlache for an expedition to Spitsbergen. This scheme had...
64 KB (8,384 words) - 00:36, 19 August 2024
Emil Bessels (category Polaris expedition)
best known for his controversial role in the attempted but ill-fated Polaris expedition to the North Pole in 1871. Circumstantial evidence strongly points...
10 KB (888 words) - 17:14, 22 September 2024
Viking Octantis (redirect from Viking Polaris)
with her sister ship, Viking Polaris docked in Amsterdam. Liv Arnesen blessed the ship from the bow of the Viking Polaris in Amsterdam, while a crew member...
12 KB (928 words) - 02:16, 19 December 2024
North Pole (section MLAE 2009 Expedition)
Edward Parry, who in 1827 reached latitude 82°45′ North. In 1871, the Polaris expedition, a US attempt on the Pole led by Charles Francis Hall, ended in disaster...
75 KB (7,988 words) - 14:15, 11 December 2024
Charles Francis Hall (category Polaris expedition)
1845 Franklin Expedition and the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death while leading the American-sponsored Polaris expedition in an attempt...
15 KB (1,606 words) - 00:52, 2 December 2024
Hans Hendrik (category Polaris expedition)
that, they returned to Fiskernaes. Hendrik's third journey on the Polaris expedition of 1871–1873, led by Charles Francis Hall under Captain Budington...
7 KB (680 words) - 19:56, 31 October 2024
Roald Amundsen (redirect from Gjoa Expedition)
Adrien de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899. From 1903 to 1906, he led the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest...
50 KB (5,170 words) - 15:19, 3 December 2024
Polaris expedition USS Polaris (AF-11), built in 1939 as SS Donald McKay and acquired from the Maritime Commission on 27 January 1941 Polaris (ship) This...
479 bytes (93 words) - 16:10, 23 February 2022
William F. C. Nindemann (category Polaris expedition)
yacht. He joined the Polaris expedition, which sailed from New London, Connecticut on July 3, 1871. On October 15, 1872, the USS Polaris–leaking badly—crew...
5 KB (491 words) - 19:08, 17 November 2024
The Great Northern Expedition (Russian: Великая Северная экспедиция) or Second Kamchatka Expedition (Russian: Вторая Камчатская экспедиция) was one of...
24 KB (3,081 words) - 22:25, 18 December 2024
Henry Hudson (section Expedition of 1609)
and contributed to the development of trade and commerce. On his final expedition, while still searching for the Northwest Passage, Hudson became the first...
29 KB (3,601 words) - 15:00, 20 November 2024
Northwest Passage (redirect from Amundsen expedition)
route was discovered in 1850 by the Irish explorer Robert McClure whose expedition completed the passage by hauling sledges. Scotsman John Rae explored a...
124 KB (13,403 words) - 03:41, 22 December 2024
1871: Benjamin Leigh Smith's first expedition explores the northeastern boundary of Svalbard 1871–1873: Polaris expedition, known for the death of its commander...
40 KB (4,658 words) - 22:43, 16 December 2024
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...
18 KB (1,999 words) - 08:18, 11 August 2024
The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest...
53 KB (6,847 words) - 12:40, 10 December 2024
hull of the Polaris had begun to leak, only to have the section of the ice floe they were on break away from the section holding the Polaris. The lost party...
5 KB (448 words) - 04:42, 29 October 2024
area of the Antarctic continent (publicly denied as a goal before the expedition ended); Determining the feasibility of establishing, maintaining, and...
17 KB (1,794 words) - 04:57, 14 December 2024
The Brusilov expedition (Russian: Экспедиция Брусилова) was a Russian maritime expedition to the Arctic led by Captain Georgy Brusilov, which set out in...
6 KB (772 words) - 14:49, 20 October 2024
Ranulph Fiennes (section Expedition leader)
attached to the Army of the Sultanate of Oman. He later undertook numerous expeditions and was the first person to visit both the North Pole and South Pole...
48 KB (4,867 words) - 22:16, 11 November 2024
The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by...
67 KB (9,141 words) - 05:10, 7 December 2024
Richard E. Byrd (redirect from Byrd Antarctic Expedition)
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...
79 KB (8,590 words) - 04:07, 14 December 2024
claim of Queen Maud Land in early 1939. The region was named after the expedition's ship, Schwabenland, itself named after the German region of Swabia. Although...
17 KB (1,730 words) - 06:17, 28 November 2024
A number of ships have been named Polaris: Polaris (icebreaker), a 2016 Finnish icebreaker Polaris (motor yacht), a 1930 motor yacht that later became...
2 KB (280 words) - 12:24, 25 July 2023
Polaris expedition Polaris C. F. Hall Bessels British Arctic Expedition HMS Alert Nares HMS Discovery Stephenson Markham Lady Franklin Bay Expedition...
35 KB (3,379 words) - 19:29, 19 September 2024
The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the...
22 KB (1,975 words) - 22:53, 15 December 2024