• Thumbnail for Gauss expedition
    The Gauss expedition of 1901–1903 (also known as the Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903) was the first German expedition to Antarctica. It was led...
    3 KB (282 words) - 01:22, 8 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss
    terrestrial The Gauss expedition, the first German expedition to Antarctica (1901–1903) The ship Gauss, used in the Gauss expedition to the Antarctic...
    13 KB (1,158 words) - 09:54, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for New Swabia
    Germany began to focus on Antarctica. The first German expedition to Antarctica was the Gauss expedition from 1901 to 1903. Led by Arctic veteran and geology...
    17 KB (1,696 words) - 13:16, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Erich von Drygalski
    South Polar expedition with the ship Gauss to explore the unknown area of Antarctica lying south of the Kerguelen Islands. The expedition started from...
    6 KB (547 words) - 00:43, 4 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of Antarctic expeditions
    1901–1903 – Gauss expedition (or First German Antarctic Expedition) – led by Erich von Drygalski 1901–1903 – Swedish Antarctic Expedition – led by Otto...
    55 KB (6,284 words) - 04:02, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Operation Highjump
    area of the Antarctic continent (publicly denied as a goal before the expedition ended); Determining the feasibility of establishing, maintaining, and...
    17 KB (1,787 words) - 04:02, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
    Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (category Antarctic expeditions)
    19th century, and ended after the First World War; the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922 is often cited by historians as the dividing line between...
    57 KB (4,015 words) - 20:45, 25 April 2024
  • Operation Deep Freeze (category Antarctic expeditions)
    S. Naval expedition into Antarctic waters. In 1929, Admiral Richard E. Byrd established a naval base at Little America I, led an expedition to explore...
    25 KB (2,904 words) - 16:39, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kaiser Wilhelm II Land
    recognized. The area was discovered on 22 February 1902, during the Gauss expedition of 1901–1903 led by Arctic veteran and geologist Erich von Drygalski...
    2 KB (207 words) - 09:16, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
    The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived...
    64 KB (8,384 words) - 18:43, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sven Hedin
    1933; the same honor was also awarded to Erich von Drygalski for his Gauss Expedition to the Antarctic; and to Alfred Philippson for his research on the...
    76 KB (10,151 words) - 11:28, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gauss (ship)
    Gauss was a ship built in Germany specially for polar exploration, named after the mathematician and physical scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Purchased...
    9 KB (695 words) - 21:16, 1 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of Arctic expeditions
    This list of Arctic expeditions is a timeline of historic Arctic exploration and explorers of the Arctic. 1472: Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst mark the...
    40 KB (4,647 words) - 10:28, 22 April 2024
  • Drygalski used Kamchatka sled dogs in his 1901–1903 Gauss expedition, faring better than previous expeditions because his dogs were used to the cold and he...
    7 KB (762 words) - 08:07, 24 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roald Amundsen
    Adrien de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899. From 1903 to 1906, he led the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest...
    49 KB (5,061 words) - 19:07, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Terra Nova Expedition
    The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by...
    67 KB (9,137 words) - 21:56, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Franklin's lost expedition
    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...
    124 KB (13,767 words) - 18:24, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of glaciers of Kaiser Wilhelm II Land
    1946-47. Named by the ANCA for Emil Philippi, geologist with the Gauss expedition under Erich von Drygalski, 1901-03, who made scientific observations...
    3 KB (478 words) - 21:06, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nimrod Expedition
    The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest...
    52 KB (6,842 words) - 10:18, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard E. Byrd
    polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and...
    77 KB (8,417 words) - 00:04, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Second German Antarctic Expedition
    scientific work of the expedition was carried out in a winter station established on the sea ice. When after more than a year Gauss was freed, Drygalski...
    47 KB (6,040 words) - 16:34, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Northern Expedition
    The Great Northern Expedition (Russian: Великая Северная экспедиция) or Second Kamchatka Expedition (Russian: Вторая Камчатская экспедиция) was one of...
    24 KB (3,083 words) - 19:39, 4 October 2023
  • research expeditions to the Antarctic in 1956; the overall research program, Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) named each year's expedition with...
    135 KB (19,332 words) - 04:58, 31 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for French Antarctic Expedition
    The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica. In 1837, during an 1837–1840 expedition across the deep southern hemisphere...
    10 KB (1,360 words) - 16:34, 3 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ross expedition
    The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships...
    19 KB (1,990 words) - 01:15, 20 April 2024
  • The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition (1921–22) was Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...
    40 KB (5,175 words) - 17:28, 14 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Antarctic exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922
    Antarctic and Endurance – were lost in the course of their expeditions; two more – Gauss and Yelcho – were scrapped when their useful lives were over...
    33 KB (1,251 words) - 11:38, 21 January 2024
  • Drygalski for his Gauss Expedition to the Antarctic; and to Alfred Philippson for his research on the Aegean Region. In 1930, the expedition excavated ten...
    13 KB (1,733 words) - 23:10, 17 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Georg von Neumayer
    which culminated in the First German Antarctica Expedition in 1901, the so-called Gauss expedition. In 1890 he co-authored the first cloud atlas. Polar...
    11 KB (1,368 words) - 11:49, 13 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Peary
    American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long...
    64 KB (7,463 words) - 04:42, 23 April 2024