Polar Explorers

Roald Amundsen — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

16 July 1892 - 18 June 1928

Fabian von Bellingshausen — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

20 September 1778 - 1852

Jean-Baptiste Bouvet — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

1705 - 1786

William S. Bruce — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

1867 - 1921

Richard Byrd — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

1888 - 1957

Jean-Baptiste Charcot — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

15 July 1867 - 15 September 1936

James Cook — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

27 October 1728 - 14 February 1779

Tom Crean — by admin — last modified Sep 04, 2009 03:04 PM

Born: 20th July 1877 Gurtachrane, Annascaul, Co. Kerry, Ireland Died: 27th July 1938 of complications following a burst, infected appendiy. His grave is in Ballinacourty, nr. Annascaul Married: Ellen Herlihy on 5th September 1917 (stayed married till his death). Three children; Mary, Katherine ("Katie" died age 4), and Eileen

Edgar Evans — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

April 1876 - 17 February 1912

Wilhelm Filchner — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

1877 - 1957

Adrien de Gerlache — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

1866 - 1934

James "Frank" Hurley — by admin — last modified Jan 14, 2010 11:11 AM

1885 - 17 January 1962

Douglas Mawson — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

1882 - 1958

Robert John Le Mesurier McClure (M’Clure) — by admin — last modified Feb 07, 2008 11:16 AM

28th January, 1807 (Wexford, Ireland) - 17th October, 1873 (London, England)

Otto Nordenskjöld — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

1869 - 1928

Ernest Shackleton — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

15 February 1874 - 5 January 1922

James Clark Ross — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 02:22 PM

Born: 15 April 1800, possibly in Scotland - Died: 3 April 1862 in Aylesbury, England - Married: Ann Coulman on 18 Oct. 1843 in Wadworth (Lady Ross died in 1857)

Robert Falcon Scott — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

6 June 1868 - 29 March 1912

Nobu Shirase — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

1861 - 1946

Jules d'Urville — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

1790 - 1842

James Weddell — by admin — last modified Jan 24, 2008 05:53 PM

1787 - 1834

Charles Wilkes — by admin — last modified Oct 06, 2008 03:20 PM

Born: 3rd April, 1798 in New York City, USA - Died: 8th February, 1877 in Washington, D.C., USA. In 1909, his remains were buried at Arlington National Cemetery

George Hubert Wilkins — by admin — last modified Oct 06, 2008 01:40 PM

Born: 31st October, 1888 in Mount Bryan East, South Australia - Died: 30th November 1958 from a heart attack at Framingham, Massachusetts, United States. The US Navy took his ashes to the North Pole aboard the submarine USS Skate on 17 March 1959 - Married: actress Suzanne Bennett on 30th August 1929

George Strong Nares — by admin — last modified Feb 07, 2008 02:16 PM

24th April 1831, in Llansenseld, Nr. Abergavenny in Monmouthshire (Scotland) - 15th Jan, 1915 in Surbiton, England

Frederick Albert Cook — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:12 PM

10th June, 1865 in Hortonville, New York - 5th August, 1940 in New Rochelle, NY

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 12:55 PM

10th October 1861 on the Store Frøen estate, near Christiania - 13th –May 1930, Lysaker, near Oslo

Herbert Milton Frisby — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:01 PM

Born: in 1896 in Baltimore, Maryland Died: not known

Matthew Alexander Henson — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:12 PM

8th August, 1866 near Nanjemoy, Charles County, Maryland - 9th March, 1955 in New York City

Otto Neumann Sverdrup — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:10 PM

31st October 1854, in Bindal, Norway - 26th November 1930, in Sandvika, Norway

Richard Evelyn Byrd — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:09 PM

25th October 1888, Winchester, Virginia - 11th March 1957, Boston, Massachusetts

Robert Abram Bartlett — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:08 PM

15th August, 1875, in Brigus, Newfoundland - 28th April, 1946 in New York City. He was buried in Brigus, Newfoundland

Robert Edwin Peary — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:08 PM

6th May, 1856 in Cresson, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania - 20th February, 1920 in Washington, D.C.

John Franklin — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:07 PM

15th April 1786, in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England - 11th June 1847, not quite known where, but probably somewhere near Boothia Peninsula, (now in Nunavut) Canada

John Ross — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:05 PM

24th June 1777, in Barsalloch (southeast coast of Scotland) - 30th August 1856 in London, England

William Edward Parry — by admin — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:04 PM

19th December, 1790 in Bath, England - 8th July, 1855 in Ems, Germany. Buried in Greenwich

Donald B. MacMillan — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:41 PM

Born: November 10th, 1874 in Provincetown, Massachusetts - Died: September 7th, 1970, buried in Provincetown - Married: March 18th, 1935 to Miriam Norton Look

George Francis Lyon — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:46 PM

Born: 1795, England - Died: October 8th, 1832 at sea, en-route to England

George Vancouver — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 01:54 PM

Born: June 22nd, 1757 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England - Died: May 10th, 1798 in Peterham, Surrey, England. Buried at St. Peter’s Churchyard, Petersham

Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 02:14 PM

Born: 7th June 1879, in Jakobshavn, Greenland - Died: 21st December 1933, in Copenhagen, Denmark

Willem Barentsz — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 02:14 PM

Born: No exact date known, but probably in 1550 on the Island of Terschelling, The Netherlands (on the Dutch North Coast) - Died: 20th June, 1597, at sea

Umberto Nobile — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 29, 2008 12:44 PM

Born: January 21, 1885 in Lauro, Italy - Died: July 29, 1978 in Rome, Italy - Married: His wife died in 1930, he had to stand trial in her death

William Baffin — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 02:41 PM

Born: 1584, in London, England (most likely, but exact details not known) - Died: 23rd Jan, 1622 in Kishm, Persia, Persian Gulf

Walter “Wally” Herbert — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 02:49 PM

Born: 24 October 1934 in York, England - Died: 12 June 2007 in Inverness, Scotland - Married: Marie McGaughey in 1969 (2 daughters (Kari and Pascale), Pascale died in an accident)

John Rae — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 03:00 PM

Born: September 30th, 1813 in Hall o’ Clestrain in Orphir, Orkney Islands (off the coast of Scotland) - Died: July 22nd, 1893 in London, England. He is buried at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands

Henry Hudson — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 03:08 PM

Born: 1565, place not known, England - Died: Probably in 1611

Gerrit de Veer — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 01, 2009 10:05 AM

Born: around 1570, exact date or place not known - Died: Not known

John Cabot — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 03:23 PM

Born: 1450 (exact date not known) in either Gaeta or Castiglione Chiavarese, Genoa, Italy - Died: when and where not know, but probably around 1498 - Children: Ludovico, Sebastian, and Sancto

Vitus Jonassen Bering — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 03:30 PM

Born: August 1681, in Horsens, Jutland (Denmark) - Died: December 19th, 1741 at Bering Island near the Kamchatka Peninsula - Was married and had several children

Vilhjálmur Stefánsson — by Kris Molle — last modified Sep 30, 2008 03:38 PM

Born: November 3rd, 1879 in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada - Died: August 26th, 1962 - Married: Had long lasting affairs with novelist Fannie Hurst (October 19th, 1889 - February 23rd, 1968) and believed to have married the Inuit woman Fannie Pannigabluk (Pan as he called her, who died in 1940) with whom he had a son Alex (born 1910), but eventually married Evelyn Schwartz Baird in 1941

John Davis — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 07, 2008 11:32 AM

Born: 1543 or 1550 (exact date not sure) in Sandridge near Dartmouth, Devon, England - Died: 29th December, 1605, Bintan Island, near Sumatra, murdered by Japanese Pirates - Married: 1582 to Faith Fulford

Martin Frobisher — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 08, 2008 08:45 AM

Born: 1535 (exact date and year not known), near Wakefield, Yorkshire, England - Died: November 22nd, 1594 at Plymouth, England. His soft organs were buried at St Andrew's Church, Plymouth on 22nd November. His body was then taken to London and buried at St Giles-without-Cripplegate. - Married: First time married in 1559, second wife was the daughter of Lord Wentworth

Edward Belcher — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 08, 2008 10:23 AM

Born: 27th February, 1799 in Halifax , province of Nova Scotia, Canada - Died: 18th March 1877 in London, England - Married: to Diana Jolliffe on 11th September 1830

Louise Arner Boyd — by Kris Molle — last modified Jun 11, 2009 04:27 PM

16 September 1887 (San Rafael, California) – 14 September 1972 (San Francisco, California)