The Explorers Club was founded in New York City in 1904, in an era I like to call the heroic age of exploration. At a time when significant areas on the Earth’s surface were still terra incognita, ...
Documents the dramatic 1897 flight of a visionary Swedish explorer who attempted to discover the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, describing the formidable ...
On the surface, at least, the beef between Frederick Cook and Robert Peary was not political. Both men were turn-of-the century Arctic explorers, not presidential candidates, competing not for high ...
Knud Rasmussen was already one of the most skilled and knowledgeable Arctic explorers when he launched the Fifth Thule Expedition in 1921 — the most ambitious of the seven such endeavors he organized.
Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s most unforgiving landscapes. This small cemetery holds the graves of Royal ...
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