Talk:Polar exploration

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Stuff to mention in a polar exporation overview

  • Hudson and Baffin the northwest passage seekers
  • Byrd and his flyovers
  • The Nautilus surfacing at the pole
  • the Manhattan (tanker icebreaker) doing a northwest passage traversal
  • the IGY International Geophysical year in 1957? with a lot of antarctic stuff
  • McMurdo Base
  • Shackleton expedition (this is polar exploration writ large, but Shackleton's story is the most widely known today)
  • Crossings of both on foot, sledge, dog teams, etc. Maybe a section of different methods of polar travel
  • Mountain climbing in Antarctica

Great start!--Brad Patrick 04:42, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Early exploration

There should be a section regarding early polar exploration with regards to the search for the northeast, then northwest passages. Bastiq▼e demandez

[edit] Modern-day exporation

Current polar exploration involves paleoclimatology and global warming Bastiq▼e demandez

[edit] What no...

S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897? -- ALoan (Talk) 18:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

OMG it's a FREE dictionary! Add it! Bastiq▼e demandez 19:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Good sources

So I've got the ever readable Pierre Burton beside me and I'm gung-ho to at least beef up and source the 19th century Arctic material. Are there other good survey works that editors have? I know this page has been under the spotlight—perhaps we can get together and take it to FA. Marskell 21:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Split suggestion

I think this page should be split into pages focussing on:

  • Exploration of the Arctic
  • Exploration of the Antarctic

At the moment there is hardly any material on this page which falls between these two topics so it would be pretty easy to split. I will go ahead and do it shortly if there are no objections. Thanks Andeggs 18:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Splitting articles is usually done when the main article is getting too large. I don't see any size issues that would require splitting here. Actually, since both are related, I think keeping them together is a good idea. Why not redirect the suggested titles here? - Mgm|(talk) 07:50, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah but the exploration of the Arctic and Antarctic is completely different so they should indeed be split into two separate entries. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 125.238.229.239 (talk • contribs) 07:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree with the split. Mejor Los Indios (talk) 22:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)