Explorers of Antarctica

Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer (1778–1852)

Russian fleet commander and explorer (1788-1851)

Belgian explorer (1866–1934)

French scientist (1867-1936)

French Navy officer of the 18th century

soviet surgeon (1934-2000)

Japanese explorer of the Antarctic (1861-1946)

Romanian polar explorer (1868–1947)

Marine geologist (1898–1976)

Soviet ocenographer and polar explorer

Bulgarian explorer

Bulgarian geologist

thumb|Ice floes in the Southern Ocean Ui-te-Rangiora or Hui Te Rangiora is a legendary Polynesian navigator who sailed to the Southern Ocean and is sometimes claimed to have discovered Antarctica in the early seventh century on the vessel Te Ivi o Atea. The legend originates from the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands archipelago, but this island was not populated until the tenth century.

Spanish explorer who investigates wheather in Antártida

Dutch explorer

Soviet and Russian geographer (1931–2011)

record held for most Southerly latitude reached, before the South Pole itself was reached

Belgian explorer, scientist and naval officer

Antarctic explorer, mountaineer and skier (1882-1913)

Japanese astronomer (1913-1991)

French physician and explorator

Russian explorer

Icelandic explorer, athlete and artist

Brazilian sailor and writer

French Naval officer

Russian explorer

South Korean mountaineer

Chinese earth scientist and polar explorer

Bulgarian film director and climber

Argentinian general and diplomat (1904-2003)