List of polar explorers

For the main articles on polar exploration, see Arctic exploration and List of Antarctic expeditions.

This list is for recognised pioneering explorers of the polar regions. It does not include subsequent travelers and expeditions.

## Polar explorers

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* Jameson Adams
* Mark Agnew
* Stian Aker
* Valerian Albanov
* Roald Amundsen
* Salomon August Andrée
* Piotr Fyodorovich Anjou
* Henryk Arctowski
* Josée Auclair
* Mikhail Babushkin
* Konstantin Badygin
* Karl Baer
* Georgiy Baidukov
* Ann Bancroft
* Willem Barents
* Michael Barne
* Robert Bartlett
* Nikifor Begichev
* Fabian von Bellingshausen
* Robert M. Berry
* Edward W. Bingham
* Olav Bjaaland
* Alfred Björling
* Carsten Borchgrevink
* Jon Bowermaster
* Henry Robertson Bowers
* Louise Arner Boyd
* Edward Bransfield
* Philip Brocklehurst
* William Speirs Bruce
* Georgy Brusilov
* Daniel Byles
* Richard Evelyn Byrd
* Todd Carmichael
* Umberto Cagni
* Jacques Cartier
* Jean-Baptiste Charcot
* Semion Chelyuskin
* Apsley Cherry-Garrard
* Vasili Chichagov
* Valery Chkalov
* Jeremy Clarkson[1]
* George Comer
* Sebastian Copeland
* Frederick A. Cook
* James Cook
* Henry Cookson
* Augustine Courtauld
* Albert P. Crary
* Tom Crean
* Lars Christensen
* Andrew Croft
* Francis Crozier
* Ann Daniels
* Edgeworth David
* Jason De Carteret
* Edwin de Haven
* George W. De Long
* Nina Demme
* Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski
* Erich von Drygalski
* George J. Dufek
* Jules Dumont d'Urville
* Lincoln Ellsworth
* Edward Evans
* Edgar Evans
* Sir Ranulph Fiennes
* Dwayne Fields
* John Franklin
* Peter Freuchen
* Martin Frobisher
* Vivian Fuchs
* Tobias Furneaux
* Yakov Gakkel
* Matvei Gedenschtrom
* Adrien de Gerlache
* Johann Georg Gmelin
* Adolphus Greely
* Pen Hadow
* Charles Francis Hall
* Helmer Hanssen
* Bernhard Hantzsch
* Sverre Hassel
* Adrian Hayes
* Isaac Israel Hayes
* Samuel Hearne
* Matthew A. Henson
* Wally Herbert
* Alex Hibbert
* Edmund Hillary
* John Hornby
* Andreas Peter Hovgaard
* Henry Hudson
* John Huston
* Edward Israel
* Hjalmar Johansen
* Antony Jinman
* Erling Kagge
* Otto Kalvitsa
* Elisha Kent Kane
* Sydney L. Kirkby
* Gerald Ketchum
* Maria Klenova
* Lauge Koch
* Aleksandr Kolchak
* Nikolai Kolomeitsev
* Alexander Kuchin
* Paul Landry
* Dmitry Laptev
* Khariton Laptev
* Carl Anton Larsen
* Georges Lecointe
* Christian Leden
* Ernest de Koven Leffingwell
* Percy Lemon
* Godske Lindenov
* Martin Lindsay
* Fyodor Litke
* Ivan Lyakhov
* Alistair Mackay
* Alexander MacKenzie
* Aeneas Mackintosh
* Cecil Madigan
* Rune Malterud
* Stepan Malygin
* Donal T. Manahan
* Albert Hastings Markham
* James Marr
* Eric Marshall
* Fyodor Matisen
* Fyodor Matyushkin
* Douglas Mawson
* James May[2]
* Francis Leopold McClintock
* Jim McNeill
* Janice Meek
* Alexander von Middendorff
* Ejnar Mikkelsen
* Fyodor Minin
* Gerhard Muller
* Fridtjof Nansen
* George Nares
* Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
* Edward Nelson
* Umberto Nobile
* Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
* Otto Nordenskjöld
* Børge Ousland
* Dmitry Ovtsyn
* Pyotr Pakhtusov
* Nathaniel Palmer
* Ivan Papanin
* William Parry
* Charlie Paton
* Fiann Paul
* Robert Edwin Peary
* Yakov Permyakov
* Eric Philips
* Ralph Plaisted
* Fedot Popov
* Richard Profit
* Vasili Pronchishchev
* Maria Pronchishcheva
* Lewis Gordon Pugh
* Emil Racovita
* Pierre-Esprit Radisson
* John Rae
* Knud Rasmussen
* Andrew Regan
* George W. Rice
* John Richardson
* Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen
* Quintin Riley
* Alfred Ritscher
* Edith Ronne
* Finn Ronne
* James Clark Ross
* John Ross
* Vladimir Rusanov
* John Rymill
* Rudolf Samoylovich
* Yakov Sannikov
* Ben Saunders
* Otto Schmidt
* William Scoresby
* Robert Falcon Scott
* Georgy Sedov
* Ernest Shackleton
* Nobu Shirase
* Pyotr Shirshov
* Ivan Simonov
* Paul Siple
* Mikhail Somov
* Pavel Senko
* Mikhail Stadukhin
* Vilhjalmur Stefansson
* Will Steger
* Otto Sverdrup
* Robert Swan
* Eduard Toll
* Yevgeny Tolstikov
* Alexey Tryoshnikov
* Avgust Tsivolko
* Nikolay Urvantsev
* Georgy Ushakov
* Merkury Vagin
* Boris Vilkitsky
* Vladimir Vize
* Lawrence Wager
* Paul Walker
* Carl Frederick Wandel
* Gino Watkins
* Richard Weber
* James Weddell
* Walter Wellman
* Frank Wild
* Hubert Wilkins
* Edward Wilson
* Oscar Wisting
* Frank Worsley
* Ferdinand von Wrangel
* Nikolai Pinegin
* Émile Danco

## See also

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* List of Russian explorers
* List of female explorers and travelers

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Exploration

Exploration by
environment|

* Canopy
* Cave
* Cave diving
* Desert
* Ocean
* Deep-sea

Exploration by
region|

* Chronology of European exploration of Asia
* History of European exploration in Tibet
* Africa
* European maritime exploration of Australia
* European land exploration of Australia
* Exploration of the Americas
* Settlement of the Americas
* Exploration of North America
* European colonization of the Americas
* Exploration of the Pacific
* Polynesian navigation
* Polar
* Arctic
* Antarctica

Timelines|

* Chinese exploration
* Timeline of European exploration
* Major explorations after the Age of Discovery
* Chronology of European exploration of Asia
* Timeline of maritime migration and exploration
* Timeline of space exploration

Expeditions|

* 1928 Great Barrier Reef expedition
* Austrian expedition to Brazil
* Challenger expedition
* Dana expeditions
* Norwegian Scientific Expedition to Tristan Da Cunha 1937-1938
* Operation Sunshine (USS Nautilus)
* Whitney South Sea Expedition

Lists of
explorers|

| By country of origin|

* French
* Hungarian
* Italian
* Portuguese
* Spanish
* Romanian
* Russian

|

By environment|

* Circumnavigators
* Climbers
* Polar explorers
* Underwater explorers
* Seafarers
* Space travelers

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Polar exploration

Arctic

* Ocean
* History
* Expeditions
* Research stations

Farthest North
North Pole|

* Barentsz
* Heemskerck
* Hudson
* Marmaduke
* Carolus
* Parry
* North magnetic pole
* J. Ross
* J. C. Ross
* Abernethy
* Kane
* Hayes
* Polaris expedition
* Polaris
* C. F. Hall
* Bessels
* British Arctic Expedition
* HMS Alert
* Nares
* HMS Discovery
* Stephenson
* Markham
* Lady Franklin Bay Expedition
* Greely
* Lockwood
* Brainard
* Nansen's Fram expedition
* Fram
* Nansen
* Johansen
* Sverdrup
* Jason
* Amedeo
* Andrée's balloon expedition
* S. A. Andrée
* F. Cook
* SS Roosevelt
* Peary
* Henson
* Sedov
* Byrd
* Norge
* Amundsen
* Nobile
* Wisting
* Riiser-Larsen
* Ellsworth
* Italia
* Nautilus
* Wilkins
* ANT-25
* Chkalov
* Baydukov
* Belyakov
* Drifting ice stations
* NP-1
* Papanin
* Shirshov
* E. Fyodorov
* Krenkel
* NP-36
* NP-37
* Georgiy Sedov
* Badygin
* Wiese
* USS Nautilus
* USS Skate
* Plaisted
* Herbert
* NS Arktika
* Barneo
* Arktika 2007
* Mir submersibles
* Sagalevich
* Chilingarov

Iceland
Greenland|

* Pytheas
* Brendan
* Papar
* Vikings
* Naddodd
* Garðar
* Ingólfr
* Norse colonization of North America
* Gunnbjörn
* Snæbjörn galti
* Erik the Red
* Christian IV's expeditions
* J. Hall
* Cunningham
* Lindenov
* C. Richardson
* Danish colonization
* Egede
* Scoresby
* Jason
* Nansen
* Sverdrup
* Peary
* Rasmussen

Northwest Passage
Northern Canada|

* Cabot
* G. Corte-Real
* M. Corte-Real
* Frobisher
* Gilbert
* Davis
* Hudson
* Discovery
* Bylot
* Baffin
* Munk
* I. Fyodorov
* HMS Resolution
* J. Cook
* HMS Discovery
* Clerke
* Mackenzie
* Kotzebue
* J. Ross
* HMS Griper
* Parry
* HMS Hecla
* Lyon
* HMS Fury
* Hoppner
* Crozier
* J. C. Ross
* Coppermine expedition
* Franklin
* Back
* Dease
* Simpson
* HMS Blossom
* Beechey
* Franklin's lost expedition
* HMS Erebus
* HMS Terror
* Collinson
* Rae–Richardson expedition
* Rae
* J. Richardson
* Austin
* McClure expedition
* HMS Investigator
* McClure
* HMS Resolute
* Kellett
* Belcher
* Kennedy
* Bellot
* Isabel
* Inglefield
* 2nd Grinnell expedition
* USS Advance
* Kane
* Fox
* McClintock
* HMS Pandora
* Young
* Fram
* Sverdrup
* Gjøa
* Amundsen
* Rasmussen
* Karluk
* Stefansson
* Bartlett
* St. Roch
* H. Larsen
* Cowper

North East Passage
Russian Arctic|

* Pomors
* Koch boats
* Willoughby
* Chancellor
* Barentsz
* Heemskerck
* Mangazeya
* Hudson
* Poole
* Siberian Cossacks
* Perfilyev
* Stadukhin
* Dezhnev
* Popov
* Ivanov
* Vagin
* Permyakov
* Great Northern Expedition
* Bering
* Chirikov
* Malygin
* Ovtsyn
* Minin
* V. Pronchishchev
* M. Pronchishcheva
* Chelyuskin
* Kh. Laptev
* D. Laptev
* Chichagov
* Lyakhov
* Billings
* Sannikov
* Gedenshtrom
* Wrangel
* Matyushkin
* Anjou
* Litke
* Lavrov
* Pakhtusov
* Tsivolko
* Middendorff
* Austro-Hungarian Expedition
* Weyprecht
* Payer
* Vega Expedition
* A. E. Nordenskiöld
* Palander
* Jeannette expedition
* USS Jeannette
* De Long
* Melville
* Yermak
* Makarov
* Zarya
* Toll
* Kolomeitsev
* Matisen
* Kolchak
* Sedov
* Rusanov expedition
* Rusanov
* Kuchin
* Brusilov expedition
* Sv. Anna
* Brusilov
* Albanov
* Konrad
* Wiese
* Nagórski
* Taymyr / Vaygach
* Vilkitsky
* Maud
* Amundsen
* AARI
* Samoylovich
* Begichev
* Urvantsev
* Sadko
* Ushakov
* Glavsevmorput
* Schmidt
* Aviaarktika
* Shevelev
* A. Sibiryakov
* Voronin
* Chelyuskin
* Krassin
* Gakkel
* Nuclear-powered icebreakers
* Lenin
* Arktika-class icebreaker

Antarctic

* Continent
* History
* Expeditions

Antarctic/Southern Ocean|

* Roché
* Bouvet
* Kerguelen
* HMS Resolution
* J. Cook
* HMS Adventure
* Furneaux
* Smith
* San Telmo
* Vostok
* Bellingshausen
* Mirny
* Lazarev
* Bransfield
* Palmer
* Davis
* Weddell
* Morrell
* Astrolabe
* Dumont d'Urville
* United States Exploring Expedition
* USS Vincennes
* Wilkes
* USS Porpoise
* Ringgold
* Ross expedition
* HMS Erebus (J. C. Ross
* Abernethy)
* HMS Terror (Crozier)
* Cooper
* Challenger expedition
* HMS Challenger
* Nares
* Murray
* Jason
* C. A. Larsen

"Heroic Age"|

* Belgian Antarctic Expedition
* Belgica
* de Gerlache
* Lecointe
* Amundsen
* Cook
* Arctowski
* Racoviță
* Dobrowolski
* Southern Cross
* Southern Cross
* Borchgrevink
* Discovery
* Discovery
* Discovery Hut
* Gauss
* Gauss
* Drygalski
* Swedish Antarctic Expedition
* Antarctic
* O. Nordenskjöld
* C. A. Larsen
* Scottish Antarctic Expedition
* Bruce
* Scotia
* Orcadas Base
* Nimrod Expedition
* Nimrod
* French Antarctic Expeditions
* Pourquoi-Pas
* Charcot
* Japanese Antarctic Expedition
* Shirase
* Amundsen's South Pole expedition
* Fram
* Amundsen
* Framheim
* Polheim
* Terra Nova
* Terra Nova
* Scott
* Wilson
* E. R. Evans
* Crean
* Lashly
* Filchner
* Australasian Antarctic Expedition
* SY Aurora
* Mawson
* Far Eastern Party
* Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
* Endurance
* Shackleton
* Wild
* James Caird
* Ross Sea party
* Mackintosh
* Shackleton–Rowett Expedition
* Quest

IPY * IGY
Modern research|

* Christensen
* Byrd
* BANZARE
* BGLE
* Rymill
* New Swabia
* Ritscher
* Operation Tabarin
* Marr
* Operation Highjump
* Captain Arturo Prat Base
* British Antarctic Survey
* Operation Windmill
* Ketchum
* Ronne Expedition
* F. Ronne
* E. Ronne
* Schlossbach
* Operation Deep Freeze
* McMurdo Station
* Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
* Hillary
* V. Fuchs
* Soviet Antarctic Expeditions
* 1st
* Somov
* Klenova
* Mirny
* 2nd
* Tryoshnikov
* 3rd
* Tolstikov
* Antarctic Treaty System
* Transglobe Expedition
* Fiennes
* Burton
* Lake Vostok
* Kapitsa

Farthest South
South Pole|

* HMS Resolution
* J. Cook
* HMS Adventure
* Furneaux
* Weddell
* HMS Erebus
* J. C. Ross
* HMS Terror
* Crozier
* Southern Cross
* Borchgrevink
* Discovery
* Barne
* Nimrod
* Shackleton
* Wild
* Marshall
* Adams
* South magnetic pole
* Mawson
* David
* Mackay
* Amundsen's South Pole expedition
* Fram
* Amundsen
* Bjaaland
* Helmer
* Hassel
* Wisting
* Polheim
* Terra Nova
* Scott
* E. Evans
* Oates
* Wilson
* Bowers
* Cherry-Garrard
* Byrd
* Balchen
* McKinley
* Dufek
* Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
* Hillary
* V. Fuchs
* Pole of Cold
* Vostok Station
* Pole of inaccessibility
* Pole of Inaccessibility research station
* Tolstikov
* Crary
* A. Fuchs
* Messner

## References

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1. ^ "Polar Special". IMDb.
2. ^ "Polar Special". IMDb.

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