by Greta Paulsdottir | Feb 24, 2021 | Antarctic, Archive, Guest article, History, Polar Heroes
Carl Friedrich Chun was born on October , 1852 in Höchst am Main. He was a German zoologist and deep-sea explorer. His life’s work was the organisation and realisation of the Valdivia expedition in 1898/1899. He was a specialist in comb jellies and squid. Chun...
by Greta Paulsdottir | Dec 17, 2020 | Archive, Arctic, Guest article, History, Polar Heroes
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born on June 11, 1910 in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, near Bordeaux. Cousteau was a French, world-renowned pioneer in marine exploration and its documentation with the film camera. In his films, his red woolen cap was his trademark. Cousteau died...
by Greta Paulsdottir | Nov 11, 2020 | Archive, History, Polar Heroes
Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole on January 18, 1912, realizing that Amundsen and his team of four had arrived before him about a month earlier. Images: Scott Polar Research Institute Cambridge, courtesy of Dr Robert Headland History loves winners. Only they...
by Greta Paulsdottir | Oct 17, 2020 | Archive, Arctic, Arctic, Guest article, History, Polar Heroes
Ivan Papanin was born on November 26, 1894 in Sevastopol, Ukraine. Ivan Papanin grew up in the simplest of circumstances in a slum on the outskirts of Sevastopol. In November 1914, Papanin was called up to the Navy on the Crimea, where he witnessed the February and...
