Roald Amundsen became the first person to navigate the Northwest Passage in his ship the Gja.
Nansen sailed his ship the Fram into the Arctic on an attempt to reach the North Pole. The ship, trapped in ice, drifted for 35 months and achieved a record high latitude of 85 degrees 57 minutes north.
Robert E. Peary completed two traverses across northern portions of Greenland’s icecap.
The Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen completed the first crossing of Greenland’s icecap.
At the suggestion of the Austrian explorer Lt. Karl Weyprecht the first International Circumpolar Year was established and a number of countries cooperated to carry out scientific studies in the Arctic.
