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Lincoln Ellsworth
Lincoln Ellsworth (born May 12, 1880, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died May 26, 1951, New York, New York) was an American explorer, engineer, and scientist who led the first trans-Arctic (1926) and trans-Antarctic (1935) air crossings.. A wealthy adventurer, Ellsworth was a surveyor and engineer in Canada for five years (1903-08), worked for three years with the U.S. Biological Survey, and ...
Douglas Mawson
Mawson received a bachelor's degree in mining engineering from Sydney University in 1902, and his field investigations in the Broken Hill mining area of west-central New South Wales earned him a doctorate in science from the university in 1909. A member of the scientific staff of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition (1907), Mawson, together with T.W.E. David, reached the ...
Robert Peary
Robert Peary (born May 6, 1856, Cresson, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 20, 1920, Washington, D.C.) was a U.S. Arctic explorer usually credited with leading the first expedition to reach the North Pole in 1909.. Peary entered the U.S. Navy in 1881 and pursued a naval career until his retirement, with leaves of absence granted for Arctic exploration. In 1886—with Christian Maigaard, who ...