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Adrien de Gerlache Adrien de Gerlache
Adrien de Gerlache , 1866-1934, Belgian naval officer and explorer. Sailing with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen who would later be the first to reach the South Pole, Gerlache led a scientific expedition to Antarctica in 1897-99. During the expedition his ship became trapped in ice for more than... Read more
King William Island King William Island
King William Island part of the Arctic Archipelago, in the Arctic Ocean, Nunavut Territory, Canada, between Boothia Peninsula and Victoria Island. The northern coast of the island was explored (1831) by Sir James C. Ross . In 1837, Thomas Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company traced the southern... Read more
Peter Warren Dease Peter Warren Dease
Peter Warren Dease , 1788-1863, Canadian explorer. He was in the North West Company before its merger with the Hudson's Bay Company and later was a Hudson's Bay Company trader. He was a member of the party of Sir John Franklin's second arctic expedition. Later he and Thomas Simpson (see under ... Read more
Sir James Clark Ross Sir James Clark Ross
Sir James Clark Ross 1800-1862, British polar explorer and rear admiral. In 1818 he accompanied his uncle, Sir John Ross, in search of the Northwest Passage and commanded the Erebus. He later studied Eskimo life while on several arctic voyages (1819-27) with W. E. Parry. In another expedition... Read more
Franz Josef Land Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land , Rus. Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa, archipelago, c.8,000 sq mi (20,720 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean N of Novaya Zemlya, Russia. It consists of 85 islands of volcanic origin, including Aleksandra Land, George Land, Wilczek Land, Graham Bell Island, Hooker Island, and Rudolf Island.... Read more
Donald Baxter MacMillan Donald Baxter MacMillan
Donald Baxter MacMillan 1874-1970, American arctic explorer, b. Provincetown, Mass., grad. Bowdoin College, 1898, and studied at Harvard. After a decade of teaching, he went on the expedition (1908-9) of Robert E. Peary to the North Pole. Later (1911, 1912) he made ethnological studies among the... Read more
Spitsbergen Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen , formerly Vestspitsbergen, largest island (15,075 sq mi/39,044 sq km) of Svalbard , a Norwegian possession in the Arctic Ocean. It rises to Newtontoppen Mt. (c.5,650 ft/1,720 m), the highest point. It is indented by large bays including Isfjorden and Kongsfjorden. Spitsbergen... Read more
Laptev Sea Laptev Sea
Laptev Sea , section of the Arctic Ocean, c.250,900 sq mi (649,800 sq km), N Siberian Russia, between the Taymyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands. It is shallow sea and is frozen for most of the year. The Lena River empties into it through an extensive delta; the sea also receives the Khatanga... Read more
Fridtjof Nansen Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen , 1861-1930, Norwegian arctic explorer, scientist, statesman, and humanitarian. The diversity of Nansen's interests is shown in his writings, which include Eskimo Life (1893), Closing-Nets for Vertical Hauls and for Vertical Towing (1915), Russia & Peace (1923), and ... Read more
William Baffin William Baffin
William Baffin c.1584-1622, British arctic explorer. He was pilot on two expeditions (1615-16) sent out to search for the Northwest Passage under command of Robert Bylot, who was formerly with Henry Hudson. The first expedition vainly tried to find a channel in Hudson Bay N of Southampton Island.... Read more

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