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...July 1, 1859 – May 27, 1884) was an [[astronomer]] and [[geographical pole|Polar]] explorer. ==Polar expedition== ...

| name = Open Polar Sea The '''Open Polar Sea''' was a conjectured ice-free body of water that was believed to encirc ...

'''Erik Eriksen''' (25 February 1820 - died 1888) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] polar captain. Eriksen was the first to sight and shore [[Kong Karls Land]], comm ...ersoner/Eriksen%2C%20Erik|title= Erik Eriksen 1820 – 1888|publisher= Norsk Polar Historie ...

| 1906 || [[Robert Peary]] || [[List of polar explorers|polar explorer]] || Farthest north travel by a human. | 1907 || [[Roald Amundsen]] || [[List of polar explorers|polar explorer]] || First to transit the Northwest Passage. ...

{{Short description|American glaciologist and geophysicist}} ...eer-of-polar-science-is-dead.html|title=Charles R. Bentley, 87, Pioneer of Polar Science, Is Dead|first=William|last=Grimes|date=25 August 2017|accessdate=2 ...

{{Short description|Norwegian-born US Navy officer and polar explorer (1899–1980)}} | nationality = American ...

{{distinguish|text = the American social reformer, [[Helen Rand Thayer]]}} ...language=en-NZ}}</ref> In 2009, Thayer was named one of the most important explorers of the 20th century by the [[National Geographic Society]].<ref name="Live" ...

{{Short description|German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist}} |death_place = [[Munich]], [[American Zone]], [[Allied-occupied Germany]] ...

{{short description|American explorer (1919–2009)}} '''Edith Jackie Ronne''' (October 13, 1919 – June 14, 2009) was an American [[explorer]] of [[Antarctica]] and the first woman in the world to be a wor ...

{{Short description|American naval officer and Arctic explorer (1816–1865)}} ...ertain what had happened to the lost [[Franklin's lost expedition|Franklin Polar Expedition]].<ref>"[https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-hi ...

|known_for = Exploring the North American coast. ...{{c.|1448}}&nbsp;– 1502?) was a [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] [[List of explorers|explorer]] who charted about 600 miles of the [[coast of Labrador]].<ref na ...

...web.archive.org/web/20220212204442/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/find-explorers/will-r-steger |archive-date=12 February 2022 |quote=In 1986 he made the fir ...n polar and environmental issues based on his first-hand experience in the Polar Regions and environmental expertise. ...

|nationality = American Captain '''John Davis''' (born 1784 in [[Surrey]], England) was an American sailor and [[seal hunting|seal hunter]] from [[Connecticut]], United States ...

* [[German Polar expedition]] ...els as the most likely suspect in the death of the expedition's commander, American explorer [[Charles Francis Hall]], by [[arsenic poisoning]]. ...

{{short description|British polar explorer}} | known_for = Polar exploration ...

{{Short description|Danish polar explorer (1880–1971)}} '''Ejnar Mikkelsen''' (23 December 1880 – 1 May 1971) was a Danish [[polar explorer]] and writer. He is most known for his expeditions to [[Greenland] ...

{{Short description|American geologist and explorer}} |nationality = [[Americans|American]] ...

{{Short description|U.S. Air Force pilot and polar explorer (1920–2008)}} ...esting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for =[[Polar explorer]] | education =[[University of Oklahoma]]<br>[[Massachusetts Insti ...

{{Short description|American explorer and geographer (1908–1968)}} ...ate Journal-Register}}</ref> December 18, 1908 – November 25, 1968) was an American [[Antarctic]] explorer and [[geographer]] who took part in six Antarctic ex ...

{{Short description|American painter (1938–2024)}} ...ne 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629121011/https://explorers.org/about/richard_ellis|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a U.S. delegate to t ...