Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen was born on May 15, 1867 in Skien, Norway. Hjalmar Johansen’s achievements in polar exploration remained unnoticed for a long time after his death. Today, Johansen is counted among Norway’s most important polar explorers, alongside...
Richard Evelyn Byrd was born in Winchester, Virginia on October 25, 1888. Byrd was a US naval officer and explorer. He received the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor awarded by the United States. He was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and...
Emily, Lady Shackleton was born in Sydenham, Kent on May 15, 1868. Emily Mary Dorman, later Lady Shackleton, was born into a large, wealthy family. She was the youngest of six children and had four brothers and one sister. On June 9, 1936, Emily died at the age of 68...
Josephine Cecilia Diebitsch Peary was born in Forestville, Maryland on May 22, 1863. She is considered the first white woman to winter in the Arctic. In 1893 her book My Arctic Journal was published. She was the wife of Robert E. Peary, whom she actively supported in...
Adolphus Greely was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts on March 27, 1844. He was a US polar explorer and officer. Greely passed away on October 20, 1935, in Washington, D.C. He had no experience with the Arctic. But he knew how to wage war. Born in Massachusetts in...
