History & Key People
The Polar History section contains information about the people that explored the furthest reaches of the globe. In this section, you can learn about some of the explorers that set out to find the ends of the Earth.
- History of Antartica
- William Baffin
- Adolphus Greely
- Charles Wilkes
- D.B. MacMillan
- Duke of the Abruzzi
- Elisha K. Kane
- Frederick Cook
- Fridtjof Nansen
- George W De Long
- K. J. V. Rasmussen
- Lincoln Ellsworth
- Matthew Alexander Henson
- Nathaniel Brown Palmer
- Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold
- Paul A. Siple
- Richard E. Byrd
- Roald Amundsen
- Robert A Bartlett
- Robert E Peary
- Robert F. Scott
- Robert John McClure
- Salomon A. Andree
- Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Sir Hubert Wilkins
- Sir James C. Ross
- Sir John Franklin
- Sir William Edward Parry
- Umberto Nobile
- V. Stefansson
- Vitus Bering
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