Umberto Nobile was born on January 21, 1885 in Lauro near Naples. Nobile was an Italian airship pioneer and general. He became especially famous for the polar voyages with his two airships “Norge” and “Italia”. Umberto Nobile died on July 30,...
Xavier Mertz is on 6 October 1882 in Basel. Mertz was a Swiss explorer who became known mainly as an expedition member under Douglas Mawson with the Aurora. Xavier Mertz died on January 7, 1913, returning to the base station of the Mawson Expedition in George V...
The Northeast Passage is the shortest sea route between Europe and Asia. For centuries, however, it was not known with certainty whether it actually existed . (Graphic: PolarJournal) It was only a year ago that Christopher Columbus had found the sea route to India,...
Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink was born on December 1, 1864 in Christiania, today’s Oslo. At the end of the 19th century, he devoted himself intensively to Antarctic research and in 1895 he was one of the first people to enter the Antarctic mainland. Borchgrevink...
