Expedition Types

Greenland Exploration

The Greenland Ice Cap has been explored by a number of expeditions: Peary – Greenland Ice Cap Nansen – First Crossing Greenland British Artic Air Route Expedition

Below the Convergence

Below the Convergence: Voyages Towards Antarctica, 1699-1839 by Alan Gurney Pimlico / Random House, London, 1998 First published W.W.Norton Co. Ltd., 1997 Provides accounts of the early voyages in the Southern Ocean. “The tantalising theory of a huge southern continent,… Read More »Below the Convergence

Surface at the Pole

Surface at the Pole, Commander James Calvert, USN (1961) The story of the USS Skate.

Submarines Under Ice

Submarines Under Ice, The U.S. Navy’s Polar Operations,  Marion D. Williams (1998)

Unknown Waters

Unknown Waters, Alfred S. McLaren (2008) A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)

The Ice Diaries

The Ice Diaries, Captain William R. Anderson (2008) The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War’s Most Daring Mission.

Under Ice

Under Ice, William M. Leary (1999) Waldo Lyon and the Development of the Arctic Submarine.

Polar Aviation Bibliography

A short, but useful online bibliography is available at PolarFlight Books: http://polarflight.tripod.com/books.htm Polar Aviation Surveys / History The most comprehensive single volume history of polar exploration by air is John Grierson’s Challenge to the Poles Polar Flight by Basil Clarke also… Read More »Polar Aviation Bibliography