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Gerardus Mercator's 1595 map of the Arctic. This list of Arctic expeditions is a ... failed three man Arctic balloon expedition in ... expedition (14 Guinness World ...
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether ...
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 ...
Detroit Arctic Expedition, 1926. After the war, Wilkins served in 1921–22 as an ornithologist aboard the Quest on the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition to the Southern Ocean and adjacent islands. [5] Wilkins in 1923 began a two-year study for the British Museum of the bird life of Northern Australia. This ornithology project occupied his life ...
Borden's government was hopeful that the expedition would strengthen Canada's claim to sovereignty over the Arctic islands. [5] The American sponsors agreed to withdraw, subject to an NGS condition that the Society could reclaim its rights to the expedition if Stefansson failed to depart by June 1913.
The doomed expedition has inspired books and dramas such as “The Terror,” a 2018 television series based on Dan Simmons’ 2007 novel of the same name. “It lives in the imagination, as much ...
The exposed film for this photograph and others from the failed 1897 expedition was recovered in 1930. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was a failed Swedish effort to reach the North Pole, resulting in the deaths of all three expedition members, S. A. Andrée, Knut Frænkel, and Nils Strindberg.
List of Arctic expeditions; 0–9. 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole; 1921 Oxford University Spitsbergen expedition; 1932–33 East Greenland expedition; A.