Adrien de Gerlache
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Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery was a Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.
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Adrien de Gerlache in 1897
The Belgica anchored near Mount William, on Anvers Island
Monument to Adrien de Gerlache in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina.
Roald Amundsen
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Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Adrien de Gerlache
…de Gerlache purchased the Norwegian-built whaling ship Patria, which he extensively refitted and renamed Belgica. With a multinational crew including Roald Amundsen, Frederick Cook, Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski, Henryk Arctowski and Emil Racoviță, he set sail from Antwerp on 16 August 1897. The Belgica reached the…
Amundsen c. 1923
Roald Amundsen as a young boy in 1875
RV Belgica frozen in the ice, 1898
Amundsen c. 1908