Talk:Polar exploration
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Stuff to mention in a polar exporation overview
- Hudson and Baffin the northwest passage seekers
- Byrd and his flyovers
- The Nautilus surfacing at the pole
- the Manhattan (tanker icebreaker) doing a northwest passage traversal
- the IGY International Geophysical year in 1957? with a lot of antarctic stuff
- McMurdo Base
- Shackleton expedition (this is polar exploration writ large, but Shackleton's story is the most widely known today)
- Crossings of both on foot, sledge, dog teams, etc. Maybe a section of different methods of polar travel
- Mountain climbing in Antarctica
Great start!--Brad Patrick 04:42, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Early exploration
There should be a section regarding early polar exploration with regards to the search for the northeast, then northwest passages. Bastiqâ–¼e demandez
[edit] Modern-day exporation
Current polar exploration involves paleoclimatology and global warming Bastiqâ–¼e demandez
[edit] What no...
S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897? -- ALoan (Talk) 18:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- OMG it's a FREE dictionary! Add it! Bastiqâ–¼e demandez 19:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Good sources
So I've got the ever readable Pierre Burton beside me and I'm gung-ho to at least beef up and source the 19th century Arctic material. Are there other good survey works that editors have? I know this page has been under the spotlight—perhaps we can get together and take it to FA. Marskell 21:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Split suggestion
I think this page should be split into pages focussing on:
- Exploration of the Arctic
- Exploration of the Antarctic
At the moment there is hardly any material on this page which falls between these two topics so it would be pretty easy to split. I will go ahead and do it shortly if there are no objections. Thanks Andeggs 18:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)