Willem Barents

Willem Barents

male, deceased (1597)
Willem Barents (Dutch: Barentsz; born ?1550 on Terschelling, West Frisian Islands, Netherlands; died June 201597 on the Barents sea, near Novaya...
Richard Chancellor

Richard Chancellor

male, deceased (1556)
Richard Chancellor (d. 1556) was an English explorer and navigator; the first to penetrate to the White Sea and establish relations with Russia....
Karl Weyprecht

Karl Weyprecht

male, deceased (1881)
Karl Weyprecht, was born on September 8, 1838 in Bad König (alternatively in Michelstadt in Odenwald, Germany), and died March 3, 1881 in M...
Karl Ernst von Baer

Karl Ernst von Baer

male, deceased (1876)
Karl Ernst von Baer (February 17 1792 - November 26 1876) was a Baltic German biologist and a founding father of embryology.
Georgy Sedov

Georgy Sedov

male, deceased (1914)
Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov (April 23 (May 5), 1877 - February 20 (March 5), 1914) was a Russian Arctic explorer. Born in the village of Krivaya Kosa...

Jan Nagórski

male, deceased (1976)
Jan Nagórski, also known by his Russified name of "Ivan Nagurski" ("Иван Нагурский")) was a Polish engineer and pioneer of aviation, the first pers...
Vasily Golovnin

Vasily Golovnin

male, deceased (1831)
Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin (4.8(19).1776 — 6.29.(7.11).1831), Russian navigator, Vice Admiral, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sc...

Jan Rijp

male
Jan Corneliszoon Rijp (?-?) was a semi-successful mariner in the late sixteenth and early seventieth centuries. Rijp is best known for his...
Vasili Chichagov

Vasili Chichagov

male, deceased (1809)
Vasili Yakovlevich Chichagov (28 February, 1726 - 4 April, 1809) was an admiral in the Russian Navy and an explorer. He was the father of Pavel...

Fyodor Petrovich Litke

male, deceased (1882)
Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke (September 28 (September 17, O.S.), 1797 - August 28 (August 17, O.S.), 1882) was a Russian navigator, geographer, and...