List of polar explorers

For the main articles on polar exploration see Arctic exploration and History of Antarctica.

See also

List of Russian explorers

Exploration and explorers by nation or region

Explorers by country	Chinese · Italian · Portuguese · Spanish conquistadors · Romanian · Russian

Explorers by type	Circumnavigators · Climbers · Desert explorers · Polar explorers · Seafarers · Space travelers · Undersea explorers

Exploration by region	Asia · Central Asia · Africa · Australia · North America · South America · Oceania · Space exploration

Exploration timelines	Chinese exploration · European exploration · Europeans in Asia · Space exploration

Polar exploration

Ocean History Expeditions

Farthest North North Pole	Barentsz Hudson Marmaduke Carolus Parry North Magnetic Pole (J. Ross J. C. Ross Kane Hayes) Polaris (Polaris C.F. Hall) British Arctic Expedition (HMS Alert Nares HMS Discovery Stephenson Markham) Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (Greely Lockwood Brainard) 1st Fram expedition (Fram Nansen Johansen Sverdrup) Jason (Amedeo) F. Cook Peary Sedov Byrd Airship Norge (Amundsen Nobile Wisting Riiser-Larsen Ellsworth) Airship Italia Nautilus (Wilkins) ANT-25 (Chkalov Baydukov Belyakov) "North Pole" manned drifting ice stations NP-1 (Papanin Shirshov E. Fyodorov Krenkel) NP-36 NP-37 Sedov (Badygin Wiese) USS Nautilus USS Skate Plaisted Herbert NS Arktika Barneo Arktika 2007 (MIR submersibles Sagalevich Chilingarov)

Iceland Greenland	Pytheas Brendan Papar Vikings Naddodd Svavarsson Arnarson Norse colonization of the Americas Ulfsson Galti Erik the Red Christian IV's expeditions (J. Hall Cunningham Lindenov C. Richardson) Danish colonization (Egede) Scoresby Jason (Nansen Sverdrup) Peary Rasmussen

Northwest Passage Northern Canada	Cabot G. Corte-Real M. Corte-Real Frobisher Gilbert Davis Hudson Discovery (Bylot Baffin) Munk I. Fyodorov Gvozdev HMS Resolution (J. Cook) HMS Discovery (Clerke) Mackenzie Kotzebue J. Ross HMS Griper (Parry) HMS Hecla (Lyon) HMS Fury (Hoppner) Crozier J. C. Ross Coppermine Expedition Franklin Back Dease Simpson HMS Blossom (Beechey) Franklin's lost expedition (HMS Erebus HMS Terror) Collinson Rae–Richardson Expedition (Rae J. Richardson) Austin McClure Expedition (HMS Investigator McClure HMS Resolute Kellett) Belcher Kennedy Bellot Isabel (Inglefield) 2nd Grinnell Expedition (USS Advance Kane) Fox (McClintock) HMS Pandora (Young) Fram (Sverdrup) Gjøa (Amundsen) Rasmussen St. Roch (H. Larsen) Cowper

North East Passage Russian Arctic	Pomors Koch boats Willoughby Chancellor Barentsz Mangazeya Hudson Poole Siberian Cossacks Perfilyev Stadukhin Dezhnev Popov Ivanov Vagin Permyakov Great Northern Expedition (Bering Chirikov Malygin Ovtsyn Minin V. Pronchishchev M. Pronchishcheva Chelyuskin Kh. Laptev D. Laptev) Chichagov Lyakhov Billings Sannikov Gedenschtrom Wrangel Matyushkin Anjou Litke Lavrov Pakhtusov Tsivolko Middendorff Austro-Hungarian Expedition (Weyprecht Payer) Vega (A.F. Nordenskiöld Palander) USS Jeannette (DeLong) Yermak (Makarov) Zarya (Toll Kolomeitsev Matisen Kolchak) Sedov Rusanov Kuchin Brusilov Expedition (Sv. Anna Brusilov Albanov Konrad) Wiese Nagórski Taymyr / Vaygach (Vilkitsky) Maud (Amundsen) AARI (Samoylovich) Begichev Urvantsev Sadko (Ushakov) Glavsevmorput (Schmidt) Aviaarktika (Shevelev) Sibiryakov (Voronin) Chelyuskin Krasin Gakkel Nuclear-powered icebreakers (NS Lenin Arktika class)

Continent History Expeditions

Southern Ocean	Roché Bouvet Kerguelen HMS Resolution (J. Cook) HMS Adventure (Furneaux) Smith San Telmo Bellingshausen Lazarev Bransfield Palmer Davis Weddell Morrell Astrolabe (Dumont d'Urville) United States Exploring Expedition (USS Vincennes Wilkes) USS Porpoise (Ringgold) HMS Erebus (J. C. Ross) HMS Terror (Crozier) Cooper Challenger expedition (HMS Challenger Nares Murray) Jason (C.A. Larsen)

"Heroic Age"	Belgian Antarctic Expedition (Belgica Gerlache F. Cook Arctowski Racoviţă) Southern Cross (Southern Cross Borchgrevink) Discovery (Discovery Discovery Hut) Gauss (Gauss Drygalski) Swedish Antarctic Expedition (Antarctic O. Nordenskiöld C.A. Larsen) Scottish Antarctic Expedition (Bruce) Orcadas Base Nimrod Expedition (Nimrod) French Antarctic Expeditions (Pourquoi-Pas Charcot) Japanese Antarctic Expedition (Shirase) Amundsen's South Pole expedition (Fram Amundsen Framheim Polheim) Terra Nova (Terra Nova Scott Wilson E.R. Evans Crean Lashly) Filchner Australasian Antarctic Expedition (SY Aurora Mawson) Far Eastern Party Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Endurance Ernest Shackleton Wild) *James Caird* Ross Sea party (Mackintosh) Shackleton–Rowett Expedition (Quest)

IPY · IGY Modern research	Christensen Byrd BANZARE BGLE (Rymill) New Swabia (Ritscher) Operation Tabarin (Marr) Operation Highjump Captain Arturo Prat Base British Antarctic Survey Operation Windmill (Ketchum) Ronne Expedition (F. Ronne E. Ronne Schlossbach) Operation Deep Freeze McMurdo Station Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Hillary V. Fuchs) Soviet Antarctic Expeditions (1st Somov Klenova Mirny 2nd Tryoshnikov 3rd Tolstikov) Antarctic Treaty System Transglobe Expedition (Fiennes Burton) Lake Vostok

Farthest South South Pole	HMS Resolution (J. Cook) HMS Adventure (Furneaux) Weddell HMS Erebus (J. C. Ross) HMS Terror (Crozier) Southern Cross (Borchgrevink) Discovery (Barne) Nimrod (Shackleton Wild Marshall Adams) South Magnetic Pole (Mawson David Mackay) Amundsen's South Pole expedition (Fram Amundsen Bjaaland Helmer Hassel Wisting Polheim) Terra Nova (Scott E. Evans Oates Wilson Bowers) Byrd Balchen McKinley Dufek Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Hillary V. Fuchs Pole of Cold (Vostok Station) Pole of inaccessibility (Pole of Inaccessibility Station Tolstikov) Crary A. Fuchs Messner