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...
Alfred Lothar Wegener was born on November 1, 1880 in Berlin. Wegener was a German meteorologist as well as a polar and geoscientist. His theory of continental shift, which has become an essential basis for today’s model of plate tectonics, is considered to be...
Edith “Jackie” Ronne was born on October 13th, 1919, in Baltimore. She was the first woman to work on an Antarctic expedition and was the first American woman to join Jennie Darlington on an expedition to Antarctica from 1946 to 1948. She and Jennie, the...
Frederick Cook was born on June 10, 1865 in Hortonville, New York. Cook studied at Columbia University and later at New York University, where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1890. At the age of 37, he married Marie Fidele Hunt, with whom he had a daughter....
Salomon August Andrée was born in Gränna on October 18, 1854. He was a Swedish engineer and polar explorer. Andrée became internationally famous for his unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole with a hydrogen balloon in 1897. Andrée died in October 1897 on...
