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1898–1902: Second Fram voyage by Otto Sverdrup explores the North American Arctic around Ellesmere Island 1898-1902 : Peary's Sixth Expedition and first attempt at the North Pole 1898–1900 : The Carlsbergfund expedition to East Greenland led by Georg Carl Amdrup explores the Blosseville Coast
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A number of previous expeditions set out with the intention of reaching the North Pole but did not succeed; that of British naval officer William Edward Parry in 1827, the tragic American Polaris expedition under Charles Francis Hall in 1871, the ill-fated Jeannette Expedition commanded by US Navy Lieutenant Commander George W. De Long in 1879 ...
British expedition to become the first to reach the geographical South Pole. Rusanov expedition: Vladimir Rusanov: 1913 Kara Sea (Arctic) Russian naval expedition to the Arctic to find the Northern Sea Route. Fawcett expedition: Percy Fawcett: 1925 Dead Horse Camp (Brazil) British archaeological expedition to the Amazon to locate the "Lost City ...
List of Arctic expeditions. The Second Grinnell expedition of 1853–1855: set out to determine the fate of Franklin's expedition; The Schwatka expedition of 1878–1880: conclusively determined the fate of Franklin's expedition; The Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881: ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait
Jameson Adams; Mark Agnew; Stian Aker; Valerian Albanov; Roald Amundsen; Salomon August Andrée; Piotr Fyodorovich Anjou; Henryk Arctowski; Josée Auclair; Mikhail Babushkin
With Ernest de Koven Leffingwell, he organized the Anglo-American polar expedition which wintered off Flaxman Island, Alaska, in 1906–07. They lost their ship, but in a sledge journey over the ice, they located the continental shelf of the Arctic Ocean , 65 miles (105 km) offshore, where in a span of 2 miles (3.2 km), the sea's depth ...
The expedition made further attempts to sail north while going east along the coast and surveying and studying various islands. On 27 July they reached their furthest point to the north at 80°48'N. [ 32 ] On 30 July, on one of the Seven Islands , Phipps and Lutwidge climbed a hill and could see that the sea was completely frozen over to the east.