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8 Greatest Antarctic Explorers
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
Sir Edmund Hillary
Sir James Clark Ross
Nobu Shirase
Sir Edgeworth David
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Robert Falcon Scott
Roald Amundsen
Ernest Shackleton
More recent expeditions
North Pole
List of Arctic expeditions
1993-94 Pam Flowers dog sledded alone 2,500 miles from Barrow, Alaska to Repulse Bay, Canada[8]
1994 Shane Lundgren led expedition began in Moscow and proceeded north of the Arctic Circle across Siberia to Magadan.
1995 Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center joined Shane Lundgren in a flying expedition to chronicle indigenous people from Yakutsk to Alaska across the Bering Straits. Discovery Online was launched through this expedition.
1995 Marek Kamiński unsupported walked to the North Pole on 23 May 1995 (27 December 1995, he reached the South Pole alone)
2004 Together to the Pole – a Polish four-man expedition led by Marek Kamiński, with Jan Mela (a teenage double amputee, who in the same year reached also the South Pole)
2004 Five members of the Ice Warrior Squad reach the Geomagnetic North Pole, including the first two women in history to do so.
2007 Arktika 2007, Russian submersible descends to the ocean floor below the North Pole.
2007 Top Gear: Polar Special, BBC's Top Gear team are the first to reach the magnetic North Pole in a car.
2008 Alex Hibbert and George Bullard complete Tiso Trans Greenland expedition. The longest fully unsupported expedition in history at 1374 statute miles
2009 MLAE-2009
2013 MLAE-2013
Camp Barneo - 89° 31′ 30″ N, 30° 27′ 0″ W
Mike Horn
Mike Horn took part in incredible expeditions!
Matt McFadyen
Youngest Australian to Reach the North Pole
This guy is a motivational speaker and his fees range between 10-20K for an event! It pays off to go to the North Pole.
South Pole
List of Antarctic expeditions
More recent expeditions
1991–1992 — 36th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Lev Savatyugin
1992-1993 — British Polar Plod — led by Ranulph Fiennes with Mike Stroud (physician), first unassisted expedition crossing the continent by ski, (2,173 km in 95 days)
1992-1993 — Erling Kagge, first unassisted, and first solo expedition to the South Pole by ski, (1,310 km in 53 days)
1992–1993 — Antarctic Environmental Research Expedition — led by Kenji Yoshikawa
1995 — “A Pole at the Poles” – Marek Kamiński solo expedition to the South Pole from Berkner Island (1,400 km in 53 days);
1995-1996 - Bernard Voyer and Thierry Pétry unassisted expedition to the South Pole by ski
1996 — Lake Vostok discovered
1996/97 — “Solo TransAntarctica” – Marek Kamiński attempted solo crossing of Antarctica (1,450 km);
21st century
2004 — Scot100 First ever Scottish Expedition to South Pole [6] began in October 2004 - a century after a historic expedition led by William Speirs Bruce, Edinburgh's "unknown" explorer, who Craig Mathieson views as "truly the greatest polar explorer of all time".
2004 — Together to the Pole - a Polish four-man expedition led by Marek Kamiński, with Jan Mela (a teenage double amputee, who in the same year reached also the North Pole)
2004–2005 — Chilean South Pole Expedition.
2004–2005 — Tangra 2004/05 created Camp Academia.
2005 — Ice Challenger Expedition travelled to the South Pole in a six-wheeled vehicle.
2005–2006 — Spanish Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Ramon Larramendi, reached the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility using kite-sleds.
2006 Hannah McKeand sets coast-to-pole solo/unsupported record of 39 days, 9 hours and 33 minutes
2007- Pat Falvey leads an Irish team to reach the South Pole, skiing 1140km only weeks after completing an unsupported Ski traverse of the Greenland Ice Cap in August 2007 in honour of Irish Polar Explorers such as Shakelton and Tom Crean. Clare O'Leary becomes the first Iirsh female to reach the South Pole.
2007–2008 — Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica.
2007–2008 — British Army Antarctic Expedition 2007–2008
2008 — Todd Carmichael sets coast-to-pole solo/unsupported record of 39 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes
2008 — First Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2008–2009 — Impossible 2 Possible (i2P) unsupported South Pole quest by Ray Zahab, Kevin Vallely and Richard Weber.
2009 — Azerbaijan Scientific Expedition
2009 — Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition, largest and most international group of women to ski to South Pole.
2009 — Second Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2009−2010 — Unsupported/Unassisted Antarctica Ski Traverse from Berkner Island to South Pole to Ross Sea by Cecilie Skog and Ryan Waters.
2010 — Moon Regan Transantarctic Crossing, first wheeled transantarctic crossing and first bio-fuelled vehicle to travel to the South Pole.
2010 — Third Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2011 — Fourth Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2011−2012 — From Novolazarevskaya to Pole of Inaccessibility to South Pole to Hercules inlet by Sebastian Copeland and Eric McNair Landry by kites and skis.
2011−2012 — British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012
2012 — Felicity Aston becomes the first person to ski alone across Antarctica using only personal muscle power, as well as the first woman to cross Antarctica alone.Her journey began on 25 November, 2011, at the Leverett Glacier, and continued for 59 days and a distance of 1,084 miles (1,744 kilometers).
2012 — Fifth Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2012-2013 - Aaron Linsdau becomes the second only American to ski solo from the Hercules Inlet to the South Pole. His original plan was to make a round trip but through a series of problems, like all other expeditions this year, was unable to make the return journey.
2012 — Eric Larsen attempts a bicycle ride from coast to South Pole. Completes a quarter of the distance.
2012−2013 — Shackleton's centenary re-enactment expedition of the journey of the James Caird aboard the replica Alexandra Shackleton. Six British and Australian Explorers completed the "double journey" on 10 February 2013 after the 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia and the mountain crossing.
2013 — Sixth Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2013 — Ben Saunders and Tarka L'Herpiniere attempts to complete in October 2013, the Terra Nova Expedition first taken by Robert Falcon Scott in January 1912.
2013 — Parker Liautaud and Douglas Stoup attempt in December 2013 the Willis Resilience Expedition [23] to set a "coast to Pole" speed record [24] by reaching the geographical South Pole on skis in the fastest miles per hour ever recorded from an interior of continent start while being followed by a support vehicle.
2013 — Antony Jinman will walk to the South Pole solo for the 2013 ETE Teachers South Pole Mission, during which he will be in daily contact with schoolchildren from across the United Kingdom and will make films using the world's first drone flights at the South Pole.
2013 — Maria Leijerstam completes the first tricycle ride from coast to South Pole.
2013-14 - Lewis Clarke (aged 16) guided by Carl Alvey (aged 30) became the youngest person to trek from the Antarctic coast at Hercules Inlet to the South Pole. His expedition was in support of the Prince's Trust and his achievement is recognised by Guinness World Records.
2013−14 — Daniel P. Burton completes the first bicycle ride from coast to the South Pole.
2013−14 — Chris Turney led an expedition, entitled "Spirit of Mawson", aimed at highlighing the decline in sea ice due to climate change. The expedition was abandoned when its Russian ship became stuck in unusually large amounts of sea ice.
2013 — In December 2013 the Expeditions 7 Team led by Scott Brady made a successful east-to-west crossing in four-wheel drive vehicles from Novolazarevskaya to the Ross Ice Shelf via the Scott-Amundsen South Pole Station. Expeditions 7’s logistic plan included providing assistance to the Walking With the Wounded expedition, which was required at latitude 88°S. From the Ross Ice Shelf the Expeditions 7 team returned to Novolazarevskaya via the same route.
Felicity Aston
First woman to cross Antarctic solo: I've never felt so alone
Børge Ousland
Børge Ousland: How I crossed Antarctica alone
Erling Kagge
Polar route
NORTH POLE sightseing flights
Arctic Sightseeing Flight
Antarctic sightseeing
Antarctica flights
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
Sir Edmund Hillary
As part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition he reached the South Pole overland in 1958. He subsequently reached the North Pole, making him the first person to reach both poles and summit Everest.
Sir James Clark Ross
Between 1839 and 1843, Ross commanded an Antarctic expedition comprising the vessels HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and charted much of the coastline of the continent.
By sailing around the vast coastlines of the continent, Ross was possibly the first to establish that Antarctica was a continent, not just a series of islands.
Nobu Shirase
Shirase Nobu was a Japanese Army officer who led the Japanese Antarctic Expedition, 1910–12. This expedition explored the coastal area of King Edward VII Land and the eastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf, reaching a latitude of 80°05'S. At one point, Shirase's men achieved an unexpected rendezvous with a party from the South Pole expedition led by Roald Amundsen.
Sir Edgeworth David
Welsh Australian coal magnate and geologist, Sir Edgeworth David, was part of the first expedition to attempt to reach the southern magnetic pole; he and his men lived off a diet of seals and penguins while exploring the southern coasts. He was also the first person to reach the summit of Mr Erebus, Antarctica’s only active Volcano.
Richard Evelyn Byrd
1929, When aircraft and flight were still in their infancy, US Naval officer Richard Evelyn Byrd, a Pilot and a photographer took a rickety Ford Tri-motor and became one of the first people to fly over the South Pole.
Admiral Bird lead four more expeditions to Antarctica, becoming one of the first people who dared to “winter over” in the continent, where perpetual darkness and an average temperature of -70 degrees Fahrenheit (-50 Celsius) makes the environment almost unsurvivable.
Admiral Bird lead four more expeditions to Antarctica, becoming one of the first people who dared to “winter over” in the continent, where perpetual darkness and an average temperature of -70 degrees Fahrenheit (-50 Celsius) makes the environment almost unsurvivable.
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, RN (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Polar Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition.
Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (Norwegian: [ˈɾuːɑl ˈɑmʉnsən]; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition (1910–12) that was the first to reach the South Pole, on 14 December 1911. In 1926 he was the first expedition leader to be recognized without dispute as having reached the North Pole
Ernest Shackleton
After the race to the South Pole ended in December 1911 with Roald Amundsen's conquest, Shackleton turned his attention to the crossing of Antarctica from sea to sea, via the pole. To this end he made preparations for what became the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–17. Disaster struck this expedition when its ship, Endurance, became trapped in pack ice and was slowly crushed before the shore parties could be landed.
More recent expeditions
North Pole
List of Arctic expeditions
1993-94 Pam Flowers dog sledded alone 2,500 miles from Barrow, Alaska to Repulse Bay, Canada[8]
1994 Shane Lundgren led expedition began in Moscow and proceeded north of the Arctic Circle across Siberia to Magadan.
1995 Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center joined Shane Lundgren in a flying expedition to chronicle indigenous people from Yakutsk to Alaska across the Bering Straits. Discovery Online was launched through this expedition.
1995 Marek Kamiński unsupported walked to the North Pole on 23 May 1995 (27 December 1995, he reached the South Pole alone)
2004 Together to the Pole – a Polish four-man expedition led by Marek Kamiński, with Jan Mela (a teenage double amputee, who in the same year reached also the South Pole)
2004 Five members of the Ice Warrior Squad reach the Geomagnetic North Pole, including the first two women in history to do so.
2007 Arktika 2007, Russian submersible descends to the ocean floor below the North Pole.
2007 Top Gear: Polar Special, BBC's Top Gear team are the first to reach the magnetic North Pole in a car.
2008 Alex Hibbert and George Bullard complete Tiso Trans Greenland expedition. The longest fully unsupported expedition in history at 1374 statute miles
2009 MLAE-2009
2013 MLAE-2013
Camp Barneo - 89° 31′ 30″ N, 30° 27′ 0″ W
Mike Horn
Mike Horn took part in incredible expeditions!
In 2002–04, Mike went around the world on the Arctic Circle solo in an expedition dubbed “Arktos”. It was a solitary voyage of two years and three months without motorised transport (boat, kayak, ski kite and on foot) on a 20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi) odyssey. Mike left North Cape in Norway and went through Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Bering Strait and Russian Siberia before he reached North Cape.[13]
In a world-first, Mike set off on a 60-day voyage on skis without dogs or motorised transportation during the Arctic night with Norwegian explorer Borge Ousland in 2006. From February to March they dragged pulkas from Cape Artichesky in Russia to the North Pole. For two months the pair walked in total darkness, and often on paper-thin ice.[15]
In a world-first, Mike set off on a 60-day voyage on skis without dogs or motorised transportation during the Arctic night with Norwegian explorer Borge Ousland in 2006. From February to March they dragged pulkas from Cape Artichesky in Russia to the North Pole. For two months the pair walked in total darkness, and often on paper-thin ice.[15]
Matt McFadyen
Youngest Australian to Reach the North Pole
This guy is a motivational speaker and his fees range between 10-20K for an event! It pays off to go to the North Pole.
South Pole
List of Antarctic expeditions
More recent expeditions
1991–1992 — 36th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Lev Savatyugin
1992-1993 — British Polar Plod — led by Ranulph Fiennes with Mike Stroud (physician), first unassisted expedition crossing the continent by ski, (2,173 km in 95 days)
1992-1993 — Erling Kagge, first unassisted, and first solo expedition to the South Pole by ski, (1,310 km in 53 days)
1992–1993 — Antarctic Environmental Research Expedition — led by Kenji Yoshikawa
1995 — “A Pole at the Poles” – Marek Kamiński solo expedition to the South Pole from Berkner Island (1,400 km in 53 days);
1995-1996 - Bernard Voyer and Thierry Pétry unassisted expedition to the South Pole by ski
1996 — Lake Vostok discovered
1996/97 — “Solo TransAntarctica” – Marek Kamiński attempted solo crossing of Antarctica (1,450 km);
21st century
2004 — Scot100 First ever Scottish Expedition to South Pole [6] began in October 2004 - a century after a historic expedition led by William Speirs Bruce, Edinburgh's "unknown" explorer, who Craig Mathieson views as "truly the greatest polar explorer of all time".
2004 — Together to the Pole - a Polish four-man expedition led by Marek Kamiński, with Jan Mela (a teenage double amputee, who in the same year reached also the North Pole)
2004–2005 — Chilean South Pole Expedition.
2004–2005 — Tangra 2004/05 created Camp Academia.
2005 — Ice Challenger Expedition travelled to the South Pole in a six-wheeled vehicle.
2005–2006 — Spanish Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Ramon Larramendi, reached the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility using kite-sleds.
2006 Hannah McKeand sets coast-to-pole solo/unsupported record of 39 days, 9 hours and 33 minutes
2007- Pat Falvey leads an Irish team to reach the South Pole, skiing 1140km only weeks after completing an unsupported Ski traverse of the Greenland Ice Cap in August 2007 in honour of Irish Polar Explorers such as Shakelton and Tom Crean. Clare O'Leary becomes the first Iirsh female to reach the South Pole.
2007–2008 — Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica.
2007–2008 — British Army Antarctic Expedition 2007–2008
2008 — Todd Carmichael sets coast-to-pole solo/unsupported record of 39 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes
2008 — First Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2008–2009 — Impossible 2 Possible (i2P) unsupported South Pole quest by Ray Zahab, Kevin Vallely and Richard Weber.
2009 — Azerbaijan Scientific Expedition
2009 — Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition, largest and most international group of women to ski to South Pole.
2009 — Second Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2009−2010 — Unsupported/Unassisted Antarctica Ski Traverse from Berkner Island to South Pole to Ross Sea by Cecilie Skog and Ryan Waters.
2010 — Moon Regan Transantarctic Crossing, first wheeled transantarctic crossing and first bio-fuelled vehicle to travel to the South Pole.
2010 — Third Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2011 — Fourth Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2011−2012 — From Novolazarevskaya to Pole of Inaccessibility to South Pole to Hercules inlet by Sebastian Copeland and Eric McNair Landry by kites and skis.
2011−2012 — British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012
2012 — Felicity Aston becomes the first person to ski alone across Antarctica using only personal muscle power, as well as the first woman to cross Antarctica alone.Her journey began on 25 November, 2011, at the Leverett Glacier, and continued for 59 days and a distance of 1,084 miles (1,744 kilometers).
2012 — Fifth Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2012-2013 - Aaron Linsdau becomes the second only American to ski solo from the Hercules Inlet to the South Pole. His original plan was to make a round trip but through a series of problems, like all other expeditions this year, was unable to make the return journey.
2012 — Eric Larsen attempts a bicycle ride from coast to South Pole. Completes a quarter of the distance.
2012−2013 — Shackleton's centenary re-enactment expedition of the journey of the James Caird aboard the replica Alexandra Shackleton. Six British and Australian Explorers completed the "double journey" on 10 February 2013 after the 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia and the mountain crossing.
2013 — Sixth Venezuelan Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.
2013 — Ben Saunders and Tarka L'Herpiniere attempts to complete in October 2013, the Terra Nova Expedition first taken by Robert Falcon Scott in January 1912.
2013 — Parker Liautaud and Douglas Stoup attempt in December 2013 the Willis Resilience Expedition [23] to set a "coast to Pole" speed record [24] by reaching the geographical South Pole on skis in the fastest miles per hour ever recorded from an interior of continent start while being followed by a support vehicle.
2013 — Antony Jinman will walk to the South Pole solo for the 2013 ETE Teachers South Pole Mission, during which he will be in daily contact with schoolchildren from across the United Kingdom and will make films using the world's first drone flights at the South Pole.
2013 — Maria Leijerstam completes the first tricycle ride from coast to South Pole.
2013-14 - Lewis Clarke (aged 16) guided by Carl Alvey (aged 30) became the youngest person to trek from the Antarctic coast at Hercules Inlet to the South Pole. His expedition was in support of the Prince's Trust and his achievement is recognised by Guinness World Records.
2013−14 — Daniel P. Burton completes the first bicycle ride from coast to the South Pole.
2013−14 — Chris Turney led an expedition, entitled "Spirit of Mawson", aimed at highlighing the decline in sea ice due to climate change. The expedition was abandoned when its Russian ship became stuck in unusually large amounts of sea ice.
2013 — In December 2013 the Expeditions 7 Team led by Scott Brady made a successful east-to-west crossing in four-wheel drive vehicles from Novolazarevskaya to the Ross Ice Shelf via the Scott-Amundsen South Pole Station. Expeditions 7’s logistic plan included providing assistance to the Walking With the Wounded expedition, which was required at latitude 88°S. From the Ross Ice Shelf the Expeditions 7 team returned to Novolazarevskaya via the same route.
Felicity Aston
First woman to cross Antarctic solo: I've never felt so alone
In 2012 she became the first person to ski alone across Antarctica using only personal muscle power, as well as the first woman to cross Antarctica alone.[6][7] Her journey began on 25 November, 2011, at the Leverett Glacier, and continued for 59 days and a distance of 1,084 miles (1,744 kilometers).[8] She had two supply drops.[8]
Børge Ousland
Børge Ousland: How I crossed Antarctica alone
Børge Ousland, the only explorer to have crossed Antarctica and the Arctic, recalls his solo Antarctic trek, in the footsteps of a famous fellow Norwegian
Erling Kagge
Kagge is among Norway's most acclaimed polar explorers. He is the first person to accomplish the "three pole challenge" of reaching the North Pole, the South Pole and the summit of Mount Everest. Kagge was also the first to walk to the South Pole alone.
Polar route
NORTH POLE sightseing flights
Arctic Sightseeing Flight
Antarctic sightseeing
Antarctica flights
