Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton

male, deceased (1922)
Shackleton's Expedition, Old Alleynian, Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, CVO, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, obe…explorer, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, ExplorerofAntarctica, Order of British Empire
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Irish explorer, knighted for the success of the "British An...
Robert Falcon Scott

Robert Falcon Scott

male, deceased (1912)
death by starvation, Anglo-Scot, Royal Victorian Order, British, captain, CVO…antarctica, explorer, ExplorerofAntarctica, Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, RN, (6 June 1868 - 29 March 1912) was a Royal Naval officer and Antarctic explorer. In the so-called "Race to the...
Roald Amundsen

Roald Amundsen

male, deceased (1928)
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen, Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Unexplained disappearances, arctic ocean, Explorer of the Arctic, south pole…Explorer of Canada, antarctica, ExplorerofAntarctica, explorer, craters of the Moon named after them
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first successful Antarctic expedition to the South Pole...
Charles Wilkes

Charles Wilkes

male, deceased (1877)
Explorer of the Pacific, Geographer, american civil war, United States Navy admiral, ExplorerofAntarctica, Columbia University alumni…explorer
Charles Wilkes (April 3, 1798 - February 8, 1877) was an American naval officer and explorer. He is particularly noted for his 1838-1842 Pacific...
James Clark Ross

James Clark Ross

male, deceased (1862)
Fellow of the Royal Society, Boothia Peninsula, Royal Navy officer, bomb class, enterprise, British…antarctica, explorer, Explorer of the Arctic, ExplorerofAntarctica
Sir James Clark Ross (April 15, 1800 - April 3, 1862), was a British naval officer and explorer. He explored the Arctic with his uncle Sir John...
Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson

male, deceased (1958)
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, new hebrides, Geologist, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, ExplorerofAntarctica, Knights Bachelor…university of adelaide, explorer, University of Sydney, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS (May 5 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian Antarctic explorer and geologist. With Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Sc...
James Weddell

James Weddell

male, deceased (1834)
ExplorerofAntarctica, navigator, antarctic, antarctica
James Weddell (August 24, 1787 - September 9, 1834) was an English navigator, sealer, and explorer of the antarctic.
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

male, deceased (1852)
baltic sea, Baltic German, circumnavigation, Imperial Russian Navy admiral, German, ExplorerofAntarctica…antarctica, Russian and Soviet polar explorer
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (September 20, 1778-January 13, 1852) served as a naval officer of the Russian Empire and commanded the second...
Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary

male, deceased (2008) (New Zealand)
Summiter of Mount Everest, KBE, Mountain climber, mountaineer, mount everest, explorer…ExplorerofAntarctica, Order of the British Empire, Order of New Zealand, Knight of the Garter, order of the garter
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (born 20 July 1919) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing...

Emil Racoviţă

male, deceased (1947)
antarctic, Babeş-Bolyai University faculty, University of Paris alumni, ExplorerofAntarctica, zoology, Academic…antarctica, explorer
Emil Racoviţă was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica. Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most no...