Artic Exploration - CHRONOLOGY

1881-1884	Adolphus Greely leads an American expedition to Ellesmere Island as part of the First International Polar Year. His junior officer Lieutenant Lockwood establishes a farthest north taking from the British a record they have held for three centuries. Only six of twenty-four expedition members survive.
1886	Robert Peary attempts and fails to cross Greenland.
1888	Fridtjof Nansen makes the first crossing of Greenland.
1891-1892	Peary's first large Arctic expedition to North Greenland.
1893-1895	Peary's second Greenland expedition.
1893-1895	Fridtjof Nansen with Otto Sverdrup in the Fram drifts across the Arctic Ocean and establishes a new farthest north.
1898-1902	Peary's third Arctic expedition fails in its attempt to reach the North Pole.
1899-1900	The Duke of Abruzzi leads an expedition in search of the Pole from Franz Josef Land; Lieutenant Cagni establishes a farthest north 22 miles beyond Nansen's.
1903-1905	Roald Amundsen completes the first successful navigation of the Northwest Passage.
1905-1906	Peary's fourth Arctic expedition fails in its attempt at the Pole but establishes a new farthest north.
1907-1909	Frederick Cook claims to have reached the North Pole.
1908-1909	Peary claims to have reached the North Pole.
1921-1924	Knud Rasmussen's 5th Thule Expedition across Arctic America.