Explorers of the Polar Regions

The Arctic regions, general

History of the Austrian Polar Exploration

Before 1700

General:

Exploration in Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait to 1650 (map)

Spitsbergen (Svalbard) in the 17th century

Chronology of the Northwest Passage

Olaus Magnus

Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancellor

Olivier Brunel

Martin Frobisher

Inuit and Englishmen (French language version)

biography

another biography

John Davis

alternative site

Willem Barentsz

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten

Henry Hudson

alternative site

Dutch voyage: see North America - coastal exploration

mysterious Hudson map by Hessel Gerritsz

Thomas Button

William Baffin

Baffin & Robert Bylot

routes

Luke Foxe and Thomas James

alternative site

Jens Munk (same site in German)

The northwest passage

Chronology

The Scientific Contributions of Early Alaska/Yukon Explorers

James Knight

Christopher Middleton

Karl Ludwig Giesecke (in German)

William Edward Parry

John Ross

Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson

alternative site

Sir John Franklin, John Richardson & George Back

Back expedition 1833-5

Edward Belcher and Henry Kellett

Robert McClure

Francis Leopold McClintock

John Rae

Roald Amundsen

To the pole

PolarFlight - aiborne polar exploration

William Scoresby Sr.

William Scoresby Jr.

Adolphus Washington Greely

alternative site

Elisha Kent Kane

Raising Kane (thesis on Kane)

obituary

Elisha Kent Kane Historical Society

Carl Koldewey

alternative site (in German)

timeline (in German)

Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht (in German)

Franz Boas (in German)

Charles Francis Hall

alternative site

A.E. Nordenskiöld

George Washington De Long

Emil von Wohlgemuth

Fridtjof Nansen

Salomon August Andrée

Otto Sverdrup

celebration of the centennial of his voyage

Robert Edwin Peary

Matthew Henson

Frederick Albert Cook

The Cook-Peary North Pole dispute

Frederick A. Cook Society

Joseph Elzér Bernier

alternative site

Roald Amundsen

Donald B. MacMillan

alternative site

Knud Rasmussen (in Danish)

alternative site (in Danish)

alternative English site

Alfred Lothar Wegener

alternative site

timeline (in German)

Louise Arner Boyd

Richard Byrd: see Antarctica

Floyd Bennett

Umberto Nobile (in Italian)

alternative site (in Italian)

The southern seas

Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier

James Cook

Now has his own link page

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

Nathaniel Palmer

James Weddell

John Biscoe

Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (in French)

alternative site

Charles Wilkes

James Clark Ross

Antarctica

General:

Antarctic History

timeline

Austrian Polar research (in German)
The history of Ross Island

Eduard Dallmann

timeline (in German)

Adrien de Gerlache

Henryk Arctowski

Carsten Borchgrevink

alternative site

Erich von Drygalski

alternative site

expedition timeline (in German)

personal timeline (in German)

Otto Nordenskjöld

alternative site

William Spiers Bruce

alternative site

Jean-Baptiste Charcot

alternative site

Robert Falcon Scott

Ernest Shackleton

Roald Amundsen

Nobu Shirase

Wilhelm Filchner

Douglas Mawson

Hubert Wilkins

Richard E. Byrd

Floyd Bennett

Paul A. Siple

Sir Edmund Hillary

interview

1957-1958: International Geophysical year (IGY)

Ross Island