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

• 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
• John Balleny
• 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
• 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
• Alfred Wegener
• Fritz Loewe
• Eduard Dallmann
• Wilhelm Filchner

See also

• List of Russian explorers
• List of female explorers and travelers

References

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