Index to Antarctic Expeditions
Compiled by the Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), the
Index to Antarctic Expeditions is intended to provide one-touch
access to information available on the Internet relating to specific
expeditions (historic and selected modern). In addition to linking to the
best summaries we have been able to trace (some compiled at SPRI,
others on Antarctic
Philately), this index provide near-comprehensive access to published
literature as well as to photographs and pictures in the
SPRI Picture Library. In the future,
as we are able to complete cataloguing of other SPRI collections
(Archives, Museum, etc.), we plan to extend the Index to cover these
also.
Publications and photographs are retrieved by searches run on the
Institute's databases SPRILIB Antarctica and
Polar Pictures. Both of these databases may be
accessed separately for more sophisticated searching (e.g. by place,
subject, photographer, etc.).
Click on the Tick Boxes, to retrieve the information you need.
Eighteenth century expeditions
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1739-41 French voyage (leader: J-B-C. de Lozier Bouvet) |
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1771-72 French expedition (leader: Y-J. de Kerguelen-Tremarec) |
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1771-73 French voyage (leader: M.M. Marion du Fresne) |
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1772-75 British Naval Voyage (leader: J. Cook) |
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1773-74 French naval expedition (leader: Y-J. de Kerguelen-Tremarec) |
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Nineteenth Century expeditions
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1819 British expedition (leader: W. Smith) |
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1819-20 British Naval Voyage (leader: E. Bransfield) |
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1819-21 Russian Naval Voyage (leader: F. Bellingshausen) |
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1820-21 US sealing voyage (leader: B. Pendleton) |
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1820-21 US sealing voyage (leader: N. Palmer) |
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1821-22 British sealing voyage (leader: G. Powell) |
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1822-24 British Sealing Expedition (leader: J. Weddell) |
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1828-31 British Naval Voyage, HMS Chanticleer |
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1829-31 US sealing voyage (leader: B. Pendleton) |
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1830-31 British expedition (leader: J. Biscoe) |
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1833-34 British expedition (leader: P. Kemp) |
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1837-40 French Naval Expedition (leader: Dumont d'Urville) |
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1838-39 British expedition (leader: J. Balleny) |
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1838-42 U.S. Exploring Expedition (leader: C. Wilkes) |
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1839-43 British Naval Expedition (leader: J.C. Ross) |
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1872-76 British Naval Voyage, HMS Challenger |
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1874-75 British Transit of Venus Expedition |
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1874-75 French Transit of Venus Expedition |
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1874-75 US Transit of Venus Expedition |
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1874-76 German Transit of Venus Expedition |
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1882-83 German IPY Expedition to South Georgia (leader: K. Schrader) |
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1892-93 British whaling expedition (from Dundee) |
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1892-93 Norwegian whaling expedition (leader C.A. Larsen) |
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1893-94 Norwegian sealing and whaling expedition (leader: C.A. Larsen) |
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1893-95 Norwegian sealing and whaling expedition (leader: H.J. Bull) |
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1897-99 Belgian Antarctic Expedition (leader: A. de Gerlache) |
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1898-99 German Deep Sea Expedition (leader: C. Chun) |
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1898-1900 British Antarctic Expedition (leader: C. Borchgrevink) |
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Twentieth century expeditions
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1901-03 German Antarctic Expedition (leader: E. von Drygalski) |
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1901-04 Swedish Antarctic Expedition (leader: N.O.G. Nordenskjold) |
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1901-04 British Antarctic Expedition (leader: R.F. Scott) |
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1902-04 Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (leader: W. Bruce) |
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1902-04 British Relief Expeditions (Morning) |
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1903-04 British Relief Expedition (Terra Nova) |
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1903-05 French Antarctic Expedition (leader: J-B. Charcot) |
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1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition (leader: E.H. Shackleton) |
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1908-10 French Antarctic Expedition (leader: J-B. Charcot) |
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1910-12 Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (leader: R. Amundsen) |
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1910-12 Japanese Antarctic Expedition (leader: N. Shirase) |
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1910-13 British Antarctic Expedition (leader: R.F. Scott) |
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1911-12 German Antarctic Expedition (leader: W. Filchner) |
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1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition (leader: D. Mawson) |
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1914-17 Imperial Transantarctic Expedition (leader: E.H. Shackleton) |
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1920-22 British Expedition to Graham Land (leader: J.L. Cope) |
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1921-22 Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition (leader: E.H. Shackleton) |
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1925-51: Discovery Investigations |
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1928-29: Wilkins-Hearst Antarctic Expedition (leader: G.H. Wilkins) |
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1928-30 U.S. Antarctic Expedition (leader: R.E. Byrd) |
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1929-30 British Air Expedition (leader: G.H. Wilkins) |
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1929-31 British, Australian, New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (leader: D. Mawson) |
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1933-35 U.S. Antarctic Expedition (leader: R.E. Byrd) |
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1934-37 British Graham Land Expedition (leader: J. Rymill) |
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1935 Ellsworth Trans-Antarctic Flight (leader: L. Ellsworth) |
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1938-39 German Antarctic Expedition (leader: A. Ritscher) |
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1939-41 U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition (leader: R.E. Byrd) |
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1943-45 British Naval Expedition 'Operation Tabarin' |
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1945-61: Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey |
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1946-47 U.S. Navy 'Operation Highjump' |
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1947-48 U.S. Navy 'Operation Windmill' |
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1949-52 Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (leader: J. Giaever) |
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1951-57 South Georgia Survey (leader: V.D. Carse) |
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1955-56 Gough Island Scientific Survey (leader: J. Heaney) |
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1955-57 Falkland Islands Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (leader: P. Mott) |
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1955-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (leader: V. Fuchs) |
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1955-98 U.S. Navy 'Operation Deep Freeze' |
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1955-59 Royal Society Expedition to Halley Bay |
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1957-58: International Geophysical Year |
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1964-65 Joint Services Expedition to South Georgia (leader: M. Burley) |
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1976-77 Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island (leader: C. Furse) |
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1979-82 Trans-Globe Expedition (leader: R. Fiennes) |
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1983-85 Joint Services Expedition to Brabant Island (leader: C. Furse) |
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1984-86 'In the Footsteps of Scott' (leader: R. Swan) |
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1989-90 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition (leaders: W. Steger and J-L. Etienne) |
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1992-93 Pentland South Pole Expedition (leader: R. Fiennes) |
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1992-93 Unsupported solo expedition to South Pole (E. Kagge) |
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1996-97 Unsupported solo crossing of Antarctic continent (B. Ousland) |
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