Arctic Expeditions to 1953
Summary of Arctic Expeditions (with a known or suspected contemporaneous postal history)
Details listed by permission from: Hal Vogel, Essence of Polar Philately, (USA: American Society of Polar Philately, 2008, 2020), Appendices II-V, (separately revised).
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| YEAR | EXPEDITION NAME | LEADER |
| 1675 | British North America (HBC) fur trading and relief expedition | William Lydall |
| 1716 | British North Cape commercial cruise of John and James | Captain Lovel |
| 1773 | British naval North Pole expedition | Constantine Phipps |
| 1776 | British naval reconnaissance expedition in support of Capt. Cook | Richard Pickersgill |
| 1777 | British naval exploring expedition in support of Capt. Cook | Walter Young |
| 1803-06 | Russian-American Co. supply and exploring expedition | Ivan Kruzenshtern |
| 1806 | British Svalbard whaling and exploring expedition | William Scoresby, Sr. |
| 1806 | French combat and Arctic exploratory cruise | Armand le Duc |
| 1815-18 | Russian/Alaskan Arctic Ocean exploring expedition aboard Ryurik | Otto von Kotzebue |
| 1817 | British Greenland Sea whaling and exploring expedition | William Scoresby, Jr. |
| 1818 | British naval Northwest Passage expedition | John Ross |
| 1819-20 | British naval Northwest Passage expedition | William Edward Parry |
| 1819-22 | British naval Arctic Land Expedition | John Franklin |
| 1821-23 | British naval Northwest Passage expedition | William Edward Parry |
| 1822 | British East Greenland whaling and exploring expedition | William Scoresby, Jr. |
| 1822-24 | Danish West Greenland zoological expedition | Carl Peter Holb¢ll |
| 1823 | British naval and scientific expedition to Svalbard & East Greenland | Douglas Clavering |
| 1823-24 | Danish West Greenland surveying expedition | Wilhelm August Graah |
| 1824 | British North America naval exploring expedition | George Lyon |
| 1824-25 | British naval Northwest Passage expedition | William Edward Parry |
| 1825-27 | British naval Arctic Land Expedition | John Franklin |
| 1825-28 | British naval (Alaska coast) exploring expedition | Frederick Beechey |
| 1827 | British naval North Polar expedition | William Edward Parry |
| 1828-31 | Danish East Greenland exploring expedition | Wilhelm August Graah |
| 1829-32 | British Northwest Passage (Victory) expedition | John Ross |
| 1833-35 | British Arctic expedition in search of Ross | George Back |
| 1835 | French naval la Lilloise Greenland search expedition | François-Thomas Tréhouart |
| 1836-37 | British naval Canadian Arctic exploring expedition | George Back |
| 1837 | Swedish scientific expedition to Spitsbergen | Sven Lovén |
| 1837-39 | British (HBC) Canadian Arctic exploring expedition | Dease & Simpson |
| 1842-44 | British (HBC) Canadian Arctic exploring expedition | Robert Campbell |
| 1843-44 | British Canadian NWT geomagnetic expedition | John Lefroy |
| 1845-48 | British naval Northwest Passage expedition | Sir John Franklin |
| 1846-55 | Missionary conducted meteorological research in Greenland | Ludvig Mossin |
| 1847-49 | British overland Franklin search expedition | Richardson & Rae |
| 1848-49 | Ross British naval Franklin search expedition | Sir James Clark |
| 1849 | British whaling and Franklin search expedition | William Penny |
| 1849-51 | British naval Franklin search expedition | William Pullen |
| 1850 | British Franklin search expedition aboard Prince Albert | Charles Forsyth |
| 1850-51 | British naval Franklin search expedition | Horatio Austin |
| 1850-51 | British Franklin search expedition | William Penny |
| 1850-51 | British Franklin search expedition | Sir John Ross |
| 1850-51 | U.S. First Grinnell Arctic Expedition | Edwin De Haven |
| 1850-51 | British (HBC) Franklin search expedition | John Rae |
| 1850-52 | Finnish scientific expedition to Russian-America (Alaska) | Henrik Holmberg |
| 1850-54 | British naval Franklin search expedition | Robert McClure |
| 1850-55 | British naval Franklin search expedition | Richard Collinson |
| 1851-52 | U.S. Arctic Canadian Arctic whaling expedition | Captain Quayle |
| 1851-52 | British Franklin search expedition | William Kennedy |
| 1851-54 | Exploration of Kamchatka (Northeast Siberia) | Carl von Ditmar |
| 1852 | British Franklin search expedition | Edward Inglefield |
| 1852-54 | British naval Franklin search expedition | Sir Edward Belcher |
| 1852-54 | British naval Franklin search expedition | Kellett & McClintock |
| 1852-54 | British naval Franklin search expedition | William Pullen |
| 1852-54 | British naval Franklin search expedition | Rochfort Maguire |
| 1853 | British naval supply voyage to Belcher Squadron | Edward Inglefield |
| 1853-54 | British Davis Strait whaling expedition | William Penny |
| 1853-54 | British (HBC) exploring and Franklin search expedition | John Rae |
| 1853-55 | Second Grinnell Arctic expedition | Elisha Kent Kane |
| 1853-56 | U.S. North Pacific Exploring Expedition | John Rodgers |
| 1854 | British naval supply voyage to Belcher Squadron | Edward Inglefield |
| 1855 | U.S. naval Grinnell Expedition relief expedition | Henry J. Hartstene |
| 1857-59 | British Franklin (Fox) search expedition | Francis McClintock |
| 1857 | Private exploratory cruise to Labrador aboard Emerence | William Seward |
| 1858 | Swedish scientific expedition to Svalbard | Otto Torell |
| 1860 | British North Atlantic Telegraph Expedition | Francis McClintock |
| 1860 | British North Atlantic Telegraph Expedition | Young & Rae |
| 1860 | U.S. Williams College Greenland Expedition | Paul Chadbourne |
| 1860-61 | U.S. North Polar expedition | Isaac Hayes |
| 1860-62 | U.S. Franklin search expedition | Charles Hall |
| 1861 | Spitsbergen (second) scientific expedition | Otto Torell |
| 1863-64 | Danish naval West Greenland surveying expedition | Falbe & Bluhme |
| 1864 | Swedish Arctic expedition | Adolf Nordenskiöld |
| 1864-69 | U.S. Franklin search expedition | Charles Hall |
| 1865-67 | U.S. Western Union (Alaska) Telegraph Expedition | Robert Kennicott |
| 1867 | Siberian phase of solo American Pacific natural history/ethnology expedition | Albert Bickmore |
| 1868 | Swedish Arctic expedition | Adolf Nordenskiöld |
| 1868 | German Arctic exploring expedition | Karl Koldewey |
| 1868 | Aborted officially sponsored French Arctic expedition | Gustave Lambert |
| 1869 | U.S. art expedition to Greenland | William Bradford |
| 1869-70 | German Arctic exploring expedition | Karl Koldewey |
| 1870 | Swedish Arctic expedition | Adolf Nordenskiöld |
| 1871 | British Arctic expedition | Benjamin Leigh Smith |
| 1871 | Swedish naval West Greenland geological expedition | Fredrik von Otter |
| 1871-73 | U.S. North Pole expedition | Charles Hall |
| 1872 | British Arctic exploring and whaling expedition | Benjamin Leigh Smith |
| 1872-73 | Swedish Arctic expedition | Adolf Nordenskiöld |
| 1872-74 | Austro-Hungarian Arctic exploring expedition | Weyprecht & Payer |
| 1873 | British Arctic whaling and reconnaissance expedition | Albert Hastings Markham |
| 1873 | British Svalbard expedition | Benjamin Leigh Smith |
| 1875 | British Northwest Passage expedition | Allen Young |
| 1875 | British Arctic supplementary scientific expedition aboard Valorous | Loftus Jones |
| 1875 | Swedish Kara Route expedition | Adolf Nordenskiöld |
| 1875-76 | British Arctic Expedition | George Nares |
| 1876 | British Arctic relief expedition | Allen Young |
| 1876-82 | Meteorology at Moose Factory for Canadian Geological Survey | James Nason |
| 1877-78 | (U.S.) Howgate Preliminary Arctic Expedition | George Tyson |
| 1878-1911 | (mostly) Geological Survey of Canada Northern Canada expeditions | Robert Bell |
| 1878-80 | Swedish Northeast Passage expedition | Adolf Nordenskiöld |
| 1878-80 | U.S. Franklin search expedition | Frederick Schwatka |
| 1879-80 | HMS Comus missing ship search of Crozet and Kerguelen Islands | James East |
| 1879-81 | U.S. North Polar (Jeannette) expedition | George De Long |
| 1880 | British Russian Arctic exploring expedition | Leigh Smith |
| 1880 | U.S. Arctic Revenue Cutter Service Expedition | Calvin Hooper |
| 1880-81 | (Howgate) US (withdrawn) Greenland expedition | Hubbard Chester |
| 1881 | Aborted British (North Pole) Balloon Expedition | John Cheyne |
| 1881 | Dutch Russian Arctic scientific expedition aboard Willem Barentz | H. van Broekhuijzen |
| 1881 | U.S. (Alliance) Arctic expedition in search of De Long | George Wadleigh |
| 1881-82 | U.S. (Rodgers) Arctic expedition in search of De Long | Robert Berry |
| 1881-82 | British Russian Arctic exploring expedition | Benjamin Leigh Smith |
| 1881-83 | U.S. International Polar Year Expedition at Point Barrow, Alaska | Patrick Ray |
| 1881-84 | U.S. Lady Franklin Bay expedition | Adolphus Greely |
| 1882 | U.S. Revenue Cutter Service Arctic expedition | Michael Healy |
| 1882 | U.S. Lady Franklin Bay Expedition relief attempt | William Beebe |
| 1882-83 | German International Polar Year expedition to Arctic Canada | W. Giese |
| 1882-83 | Jan Mayen Austro-Hungarian International Polar Year expedition | E. von Wohlgemuth |
| 1882-83 | Swedish International Polar Year expedition to Spitsbergen | Nils Ekholm |
| 1882-83 | German auxiliary IPY expedition to Labrador | Karl Koch |
| 1883 | U.S. Alaska Military Reconnaissance expedition | Frederick Schwatka |
| 1883 | Swedish West Greenland expedition | Adolph Nordenskiöld |
| 1883 | U.S. Lady Franklin Bay Expedition relief attempt | Ernest Garlington |
| 1884 | U.S. Greely relief expedition | Winfield Scott Schley |
| 1884-85 | Canadian Hudson Bay Expedition | Andrew Gordon |
| 1885 | U.S. Army Alaska exploring expedition of Copper and Tanana Rivers | Henry Allen |
| 1885-86 | Second Canadian Hudson Bay Expedition | Andrew Gordon |
| 1886 | U.S. Greenland expedition | Robert Edwin Peary |
| 1888-89 | Norwegian trans-Greenland expedition | Fridtjof Nansen |
| 1890 | British/Canadian exploring expedition | Warburton Pike |
| 1891 | German tourist/scientific expedition | Wilhelm Bade |
| 1891 | German preliminary glaciological expedition | Erich von Drygalski |
| 1891 | Bowdoin College Labrador Scientific Expedition | Leslie Lee |
| 1891-92 | United States North Greenland Expedition | Robert Edwin Peary |
| 1892 | U.S. Peary Relief Expedition | Angelo Heilprin |
| 1892-93 | German Greenland glaciological expedition | Erich von Drygalski |
| 1893 | U.S. Greenland reconnaissance expedition | Frederick Cook |
| 1893 | Norwegian/German Svalbard tourist expedition (many to follow) | Wilhelm Bade |
| 1893 | British solo missionary Labrador botanical research | Arthur Waghorne |
| 1893-95 | U.S. North Greenland Expedition | Robert Edwin Peary |
| 1893-96 | Norwegian Arctic exploring expedition | Fridtjof Nansen |
| 1894 | (U.S.) Wellman North Pole Expedition | Walter Wellman |
| 1894 | U.S. Greenland tourist expedition | Frederick Cook |
| 1894 | U.S. Peary Auxiliary Expedition | Henry Bryant |
| 1894-97 | Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition | Frederick George Jackson |
| 1896 | Swedish North Pole balloon expedition | Salomon August Andrée |
| 1896 | U.S. Greenland expedition | Robert Edwin Peary |
| 1896 | Arctic Expedition to Northwest Spitsbergen | Jefferson-Farnham |
| 1896 | British Astronomical Assoc. Arctic Norway solar eclipse expedition | Walter Maunder |
| 1896 | Fur Seal Investigations expedition Bering Sea and Alaska | David Jordan |
| 1896 | Stanford U. NW Alaska and Canada Arctic zoological expedition | Seale & Scofield |
| 1896 | Tourist exploring expedition to Spitsbergen | Martin Conway |
| 1896 | Swedish Spitsbergen geological expedition | Gerard De Geer |
| 1896 | French western Siberia archaeological expedition | Joseph de Baye |
| 1896-97 | Karluk, Alaska, region biological collection and fish study | Cloudsley Rutter |
| 1897 | Swedish North Pole balloon expedition | Salomon August Andrée |
| 1897 | U.S. Greenland expedition | Robert Edwin Peary |
| 1897 | U.S. Greenland archaeological expedition | Robert Stein |
| 1897 | U.S. Baffin Island exploring expedition | Russell Porter |
| 1897 | Seal conservation expedition on St. Paul Island, Bering Sea | David Jordan |
| 1897 | Canadian hydrographic survey of Hudson Strait | William Wakeham |
| 1898 | Prince of Monaco International Svalbard expedition | Albert I |
| 1898 | German fisheries (Olga) research expedition to Spitsbergen | Clemens Hartlaub |
| 1898 | Swedish Svalbard scientific expedition | A. Gabriel Nathorst |
| 1898 | British (Scottish) Svalbard sport and scientific expedition (aboard Blencathra) | A. Coats |
| 1898 | Private German scientific "Helgoland Expedition" to Spitsbergen | Theodor Lerner |
| 1898 | U.S. Army Alaska Exploring Expedition No. 3 | Edwin F. Glenn |
| 1898 | Kiev University Museum Russian Spitsbergen biological expedition | Alexander Korotnev |
| 1898 | English Arctic sporting & discovery expedition aboard Victoria | Arnold Pike |
| 1898 | Swedish Andrée search expedition in Arctic Russia | Jonas Stadling |
| 1898-99 | Wellman North Pole Expedition | Walter Wellman |
| 1898-99 | Geological survey of Yukon Territory | Otto Nordenskjöld |
| 1898-1902 | U.S. North Pole expedition | Robert Edwin Peary |
| 1898-1902 | Norwegian Arctic Canada exploring expedition | Otto Sverdrup |
| 1898-1902 | Swedish-Russian Arc of Meridian expeditions to Svalbard. | |
| 1899 | U.S. sport-hunting expedition aboard Peary relief ship | Russell Porter |
| 1899 | U.S. Harriman Alaska Expedition | Edward H. Harriman |
| 1899 | Prince of Monaco International Svalbard expedition | Albert I |
| 1899 | Yermak icebreaker trials and Russian scientific expedition | Stepan Makarov |
| 1899-1900 | Canadian Western Canada Geological Survey expedition | Robert Bell |
| 1899-1900 | Italian North Pole expedition | Luigi Amedeo di Savoia |
| 1899-1901 | U.S. Ellesmere Island exploring expedition | Robert Stein |
| 1900 | Canadian Dominion Lands (NW Canada) Survey expedition | James Tyrrell |
| 1900 | Carlsberg Foundation (Danish) Expedition to East Greenland | Georg Amdrup |
| 1900 | "Harriman" -1899 supplemental Alaskan botanical illustration exp. | Frederick Walpole |
| 1900 | Danish geological expedition to Julianhaab region of Greenland | Niels Ussing |
| 1901 | Relief of 1898-1902 Peary North Pole Expedition | Herbert Bridgman |
| 1901-02 | Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole Expedition | Evelyn Baldwin |
| 1902-04 | Danish Literary Greenland Expedition | Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen |
| 1903-04 | Canadian Arctic survey and patrol | Albert Low |
| 1903-05 | Fiala-Ziegler North Pole Expedition | Anthony Fiala |
| 1903-06 | Norwegian Northwest Passage expedition | Roald Amundsen |
| 1904 | Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen, Greenland hunting expedition aboard Laura | Magnus Giaever |
| 1904-05 | Canadian Arctic survey and patrol | Joseph-Elzéar Bernier |
| 1905 | French/Belgian Greenland Sea scientific expedition | Philippe d'Orléans |
| 1905-06 | U.S. North Pole expedition | Robert Edwin Peary |
| 1905-08 | Several scientific trips to Greenland | Knud Rasmussen |
| 1906 | Wellman Chicago Record-Herald North Pole (airship) Expedition | Walter Wellman |
| 1906 | International Svalbard scientific expedition | Prince of Monaco |
| 1906 | Establishment of first permanent Greenland scientific station | Morten Porsild |
| 1906 | German ornithological expedition to northeast Canadian Arctic | Bernhard Hantzsch |
| 1906 | Dutch warship Friesland Arctic cruise including oceanography | |
| 1906-07 | Canadian Arctic patrol | Joseph-Elzéar Bernier |
| 1906-07 | U.S. Arctic Canada anthropological expedition | Vilhjalmur Stefansson |
| 1906-08 | Danish "Danmark" Greenland expedition | Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen |
| 1906-08 | Anglo-American Polar Expedition | Leffingwell & Mikkelsen |
| 1907 | Scottish Svalbard scientific expedition | William Bruce |
| 1907 | Wellman Chicago Record-Herald North Pole (airship) Expedition | Walter Wellman |
| 1907 | International Svalbard scientific expedition | Prince of Monaco |
| 1907 | German/Norwegian Greenland Sport hunting expedition | Magnus Giaever |
| 1907 | Technology Expedition to the Aleutian Islands aboard Lydia | Thomas Jaggar |
| 1907 | US/Canada Alaska/Yukon Boundary Survey Expedition | Thomas Riggs |
| 1907 | French/Belgian scientific expedition to Barents and Kara Seas | Philippe d'Orléans |
| 1907-08 | Spitsbergen photogrammetric expedition | Theodor Lerner |
| 1907-09 | U.S. North Pole expedition | Frederick Cook |
| 1908 | French Arctic Oceanographic Mission to Novaya Zemlya | Charles Bénard |
| 1908 | German scientific expedition to unexplored parts of Spitsbergen | Max Raebel |
| 1908 | Swedish scientific expedition to Spitsbergen | Gerard De Geer |
| 1908 | Danish geological expedition to West Greenland | Niels Ussing |
| 1908-09 | U.S. North Pole expedition | Robert Edwin Peary |
| 1908-12 | Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition | Vilhjalmur Stefansson |
| 1909 | Wellman Chicago Record-Herald North Pole (airship) Expedition | Walter Wellman |
| 1909 | Swiss-German Greenland scientific expedition | Alfred de Quervain |
| 1909 | Danish Greenland geological expedition | Heim & Ravn |
| 1909 | Swedish West Greenland scientific expedition d | Otto Nordenskjöld |
| 1909 | Sporting and scientific cruise aboard Belgica to Greenland & Barents | Duc d'Orléans |
| 1909-12 | Danish Mylius-Erichsen (Alabama) search expedition | Ejnar Mikkelsen |
| 1909-12 | Leffingwell U.S. Alaska scientific expedition | Ernest de Koven |
| 1910 | Russian Arctic hydrographic surveying expedition | Georgiy Sedov |
| 1910 | Russian Arctic surveying expedition | Vladimir Rusanov |
| 1910 | Zeppelin feasibility study expedition to Spitsbergen | Erich von Drygalski |
| 1910 | Establishes Thule, Greenland, trading and exploring station | Knud Rasmussen |
| 1910 | German Antarctic preparatory expedition to Spitsbergen | Wilhelm Filchner |
| 1910 | International Geological Congress Spitsbergen expedition | Gerard De Geer |
| 1910 | German Norwegian International Spitsbergen geological expedition | Paul Zenetti |
| 1910-11 | Canadian Arctic Patrol & survey cruise aboard Arctic | Joseph-Elzéar Bernier |
| 1911 | British (unsuccessful) expedition to Jan Mayen | J. Foster Stackhouse |
| 1911 | German Spitsbergen exploring expedition | Ernst von Sachen-Altenburg |
| 1911-14 | German Spitsbergen annually-relieved meteorological expedition | Hugo Hergesell |
| 1912 | Scottish Svalbard expedition | William Bruce |
| 1912 | French Arctic scientific expedition | Jean-Baptiste Charcot |
| 1912 | First Thule Expedition | Knud Rasmussen |
| 1912 | Russian Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition | I.S. Sergeyev |
| 1912 | Canadian gold prospecting expedition aboard Neptune to Baffin Island | Lucky Scott |
| 1912 | Norwegian Arctic Ocean oceanographic expedition off Svalbard | Fridtjof Nansen |
| 1912 | Norwegian (Spitsbergen) scientific expedition | Staxrud & Hoel |
| 1912-13 | Russian scientific and Northern Sea Route expedition | Vladimir Rusanov |
| 1912-13 | Wegener Danish/German Greenland expedition | J.P. Koch & |
| 1912-13 | Swiss Greenland exploring and scientific expedition | Alfred de Quervain |
| 1912-13 | German Arctic expedition | Herbert Schröder-Stranz |
| 1912-13 | Robitzsch German meteorological expedition to Spitsbergen | K. Wegener & |
| 1912-14 | Russian North Pole expedition | Georgiy Sedov |
| 1912-14 | Russian Northern Sea Route expedition | Georgiy Brusilov |
| 1912-14 | Baty French world cruise (Curieuse) including French Antarctica | Raymond Rallier du |
| 1913 | Russian Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition | Boris Vilkitsky |
| 1913 | Svalbard search expedition for Schröder-Stranz party | Theodor Lerner |
| 1913 | German-Norwegian Schröder-Stranz search expedition | Arve Staxrud |
| 1913 | Russian Spitsbergen coal prospecting expedition | Rudolf Samoylovich |
| 1913 | Swedish geological expedition to Spitsbergen | Erik Andersson |
| 1913-14 | Leffingwell U.S. Alaska scientific expedition | Ernest de Koven |
| 1913-14 | U.S. North Alaska whaling, hunting, trading & zoological expedition | Louis Lane |
| 1913-17 | U.S. Crocker Land Expedition | Donald MacMillan |
| 1913-18 | Canadian Arctic Expedition | Vilhjalmur Stefansson |
| 1914-15 | Russian Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition | Boris Vilkitsky |
| 1915 | Swedish central Spitsbergen geological expedition | Erik Andersson |
| 1916 | US Geological Survey Anvik to Andreafski Rivers Alaska Exploration | R. Harvey Sargent |
| 1916-18 | Second Thule Expedition | Knud Rasmussen |
| 1918-25 | Norwegian Arctic drift expedition | Roald Amundsen |
| 1919 | Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate Expedition aboard Petunia | William Bruce |
| 1919-20 | Third and Fourth Thule Expeditions | Knud Rasmussen |
| 1920-23 | Swedish Kamchatka zoological expedition | Sten Bergman |
| 1920-23 | Danish Bicentennial Expedition to Greenland | Lauge Koch |
| 1920-25 | Norwegian Geophysical Station established on Spitsbergen | Adolf Hoel |
| 1921 | Dutch Spitsbergen mining and scientific expedition | G.J. van Oordt |
| 1921-23 | Wrangel Island occupation expedition | Vilhjalmur Stefansson |
| 1921-26 | German Medical and nutritional research at Green Harbour, Spitsbergen | Otto Abs |
| 1921-28 | Series of Russian Kara Sea expeditions | |
| 1921-39 | Series of British Oxford and Cambridge U. Arctic Expeditions | |
| 1921-24 | Fifth Thule Expedition | Knud Rasmussen |
| 1921-54 | Private and museum (mostly aboard Bowdoin) Arctic expeditions | Donald MacMillan |
| 1925 | Amundsen-Ellsworth North Pole flight expedition | Amundsen & Ellsworth |
| 1925 | MacMillan-USN Arctic Aerial Expedition | Donald MacMillan |
| 1925 | Hamburg-Spitsbergen Expedition | Karl Gripp |
| 1925 | Algarsson North Pole Expedition | Grettir Algarsson |
| 1925 | German Spitsbergen Expedition | Max Grotewahl |
| 1925 | Hessian West Greenland Expedition | Hans Krüger |
| 1925 | Norwegian Svalbard & Arctic Ocean Survey | Adolph Hoel |
| 1925-36 | Series of cruises to Iceland and Greenland | Jean-Baptiste Charcot |
| 1925-41 | Series of private and museum (Morrissey) Arctic expeditions | Robert Bartlett |
| 1925-27 | German (Meteor) North Atlantic Expedition | Alfred Merz |
| 1926 | North Pole flight expedition | Richard Byrd |
| 1926 | Norge North Pole flight | Amundsen & Nobile |
| 1926 | German Barents Sea expedition aboard Zieten | Dr. Bruno Schultz |
| 1926 | Aborted French mechanized trans-Arctic North Pole traverse | Georges Darcis |
| 1926 | Scientific expedition to Franz Josef Land | Louise Boyd |
| 1926-28 | Arctic basin flight expeditions | Hubert Wilkins |
| 1927-28 | Rumanian Greenland Expedition | Constantin Dumbrava |
| 1928 | Koehl Bremen Atlantic flight to Labrador and its rescue | Von Huenefeld & |
| 1928 | Italia North Pole airship flight | Umberto Nobile |
| 1928 | Italia search expedition | Gianni Albertini |
| 1928 | (Danish) Godthaab (Davis Strait) Expedition | Eigil Riis-Carstensen |
| 1928 | Fox Film Expedition to Barrow, Alaska | Ewing Scott |
| 1928 | American Museum of Natural History Siberian Arctic Expedition | Stoll & McCracken |
| 1928 | Amundsen search expedition in Arctic waters | Louise Boyd |
| 1928-38 | German SMS Meteor Greenland area scientific cruises | |
| 1928-29 | Canadian Arctic Expedition to Northern Greenland | |
| 1926-31 | Series of U. of Michigan Greenland expeditions | W. H. Hobbs |
| 1929 | Danish Greenland archaeological expedition | Therkel Mathiassen |
| 1929 | Italian Arctic expedition in search of Italia remains | Gianni Albertini |
| 1929-30 | Morden-Graves (zoological) North Asiatic (E. Siberia) Expedition | Morden & Graves |
| 1929-30 | Swedish Kuriles natural history expedition | Sten Bergman |
| 1930 | German Meteor research cruise to Iceland and Greenland | G. Böhnecke |
| 1930 | German-Norwegian Spitsbergen Expedition | Hans Frebold |
| 1930 | Norwegian scientific expedition to East Greenland and Jan Mayen | Adolph Hoel |
| 1930-34 | British Arctic Air Route Expedition | Gino Watkins |
| 1930-31 | German Greenland expedition | Alfred Wegener |
| 1931-34 | Danish Greenland expedition | Lauge Koch |
| 1931-52 | Danish geological research around Arsuk Fjord, Greenland | Richard B¢gvad |
| 1931 | Graf Zeppelin polar flight | Hugo Eckener |
| 1931 | Sixth Thule Expedition | Knud Rasmussen |
| 1931 | Nautilus Arctic submarine expedition | Hubert Wilkins |
| 1931 | Norcross-Bartlett Expedition (Greenland Sea) | Robert Bartlett |
| 1931 | Austrian Spitsbergen Climbing Trip | R. Untersteiner |
| 1931 | Scientific expedition to East Greenland | Louise Boyd |
| 1931 | Swedish-Norwegian Spitsbergen expedition | Hans Ahlmann |
| 1931-32 | (U.S. North family) North Lapland Expedition | Arthur North |
| 1932 | Seventh Thule Expedition | Knud Rasmussen |
| 1932 | Universal-Dr. Fanck Greenland Expedition | Dr. Arnold Fanck |
| 1932 | Peary Memorial Expedition (Cape York, Greenland) | R.L. Belknap |
| 1932 | Soviet manning of Arctic Russia scientific stations | Approximate beginning of |
| 1932 | Danish Investigation in East Greenland | Ejnar Mikkelsen |
| 1932 | Danish Greenland linguistic studies expedition aboard Disco | Michella Erichsen |
| 1932 | Norwegian (NSIU) Svalbard and Arctic Seas Survey | Adolph Hoel |
| 1932-33 | U. of Michigan Greenland expedition | R.L. Belknap |
| 1932-33 | Second Polar Year Arctic research stations | Number of multi-national |
| 1932-33 | French Naval expedition to East Greenland | |
| 1932-33 | Swedish Second International Polar Year Spitsbergen expedition | Hilding Olsson |
| 1933 | Last Thule expedition | Knud Rasmussen |
| 1933 | Norcross-Bartlett Expedition (Arctic Canada) | Robert Bartlett |
| 1933 | Scientific expedition to East Greenland | Louise Boyd |
| 1933 | Alaska Eskimo film expedition | Woodbridge Van Dyke |
| 1933-34 | Chelyuskin NE Passage and rescue expeditions | Otto Schmidt |
| 1933-34 | British Trans-Greenland Expedition | Martin Lindsay |
| 1933-37 | Series of Soviet Chukotka geological expeditions | |
| 1934 | Italian Greenland Mountaineering Expedition to Scoresbysund | Leonardo Bonzi |
| 1934-35 | Victor French East Greenland Expedition | Gessain, Perez & |
| 1935 | German Spitsbergen Expedition | Ernst Sorge |
| 1935 | Czech (German) Spitsbergen biological expedition | Josef Zukriegel |
| 1935 | Unsuccessful East Greenland inspection cruise aboard Godthaab | Ejnar Mikkelsen |
| 1935 | East Greenland Geological Expedition at Scoresbysund | Rosenkrantz Danish |
| 1935 | Soviet Taimyr Peninsula exploratory expedition | M.M. Nikitin |
| 1935-36 | Arctic Expedition across Alaska | Bernard Hubbard |
| 1936-39 | British-Canadian Arctic Expedition to Baffin Land | T. Manning |
| 1936 | Victor French Trans-Greenland Expedition | Gessain, Perez & |
| 1936 | French Pourquoi-Pas? wreck survey | Gessain & Perez |
| 1936 |