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Xavier Mertz Polar Explorers

Xavier Mertz

Xavier Mertz (1882 – 1913) Xavier Mertz was a Swiss explorer from Basel. He took part in the Far Eastern Party, a 1912–13 sledging journey of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), which claimed his life. The Mertz Glacier is named after him. As a young man, Mertz studied law and…
August 28, 2010
Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz Polar Explorers

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz (1885-1966) Chester William Nimitz, Sr. was a fleet admiral of the United States Navy. As Chief of Naval Operations 1945-47, Nimitz was instrumental in the approval and deployment of the Operation Highjump, the largest Antarctic expedition ever organized. Naval Career and World War II Nimitz was…
August 28, 2010
Nathaniel B. Palmer Polar Explorers

Nathaniel B. Palmer

Nathaniel Brown Palmer (1799 – 1877) Nathaniel B. Palmer was an American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer, after whom Palmer Land, a stretch of western Antarctic coast and islands, is named. Sealing and Antarctic Discoveries Young Nat played in his father's Stonington, CT shipyard, went to sea…
August 28, 2010
Herbert Ponting Polar Explorers

Herbert Ponting

Herbert George Ponting, FRGS (March 21, 1870 – February 7, 1935) Herbert Ponting was a professional photographer and pioneer of modern polar photography. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). In this…
August 28, 2010
Sir James Clark Ross Polar Explorers

Sir James Clark Ross

SIR JAMES CLARK ROSS (1800-1862) Sir James Clark Ross was a British naval officer who carried out important magnetic surveys in the Arctic and Antarctic and who discovered the Ross Sea and the Victoria Land region of Antarctica. Early Life and Arctic Voyages Ross joined the navy at age 11…
August 28, 2010