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...
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...
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...
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...
