The original exhibition was researched and designed by guest curator Arthur Dunkelman, Director and Curator of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation, with assistance from Prof. Matthew Edney and Yolanda Theunissen. The staff of OML’s Imaging Center, David N...
Modern satellite and geophysical technologies now permit us to map Antarctica and its ice sheets in unprecedented detail. In 2012, multiple sources of data were combined in this revealing map, which for the first time imaged the Antarctic landscape t...
Sir Ernest Shackleton first headed south in 1901, under Scott’s command [item 58]. Their personal differences began a heated rivalry that led Shackleton to organize three further expeditions on his own. On the Nimrod Expedition (1907–1909), Shack...
The history of the early mapping of the southern polar regions presents a continual debate between observation and reason, between solely reporting what mariners encountered and turning those partial observations into a general understanding of the r...
Many attempts were made to reach the North Pole during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, by ship, balloon, and dirigible, but all failed until Robert Peary (1856–1920) reached the pole in April 1909 with dog sledges. The race for the pole...
Northern Europeans sought for centuries to forge routes to Asia’s wealth through the Arctic. Merchants and settlers were already exploring parts of the northern coasts of Russia and Asia as early as the eleventh century. Attempts to open up the “...
