Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the RV Belgica, it...

la Belgica antarctica" (Belgian Strait) (now called Gerlache Strait), which in turn was named after the expedition's steam-yacht, SY Belgica. Belgica antarctica...

of Belgica. Other members of the expedition included Roald Amundsen, Henryk Arctowski, Antoni Dobrowolski and Emil Racoviţă. The overloaded Belgica broke...

international team that started out on a research expedition to Antarctica, aboard the Belgica. The expedition was led by the Belgian officer Adrien de Gerlache...

Belgian Antarctic Expedition as first mate at the age of 25 in 1897. This expedition, led by Adrien de Gerlache using the ship the RV Belgica, became the first...

Détroit de la Belgica is a channel/strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula. The Belgian Antarctic Expedition, under Lt. Adrien...

countryman Fridtjof Nansen, Amundsen joined the Belgian Antarctic Expedition as mate, aboard Belgica under Adrien de Gerlache. Early in 1898 the ship became trapped...

Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two...

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived...

reached Madeira expedition to the Greenland Sea on board the Belgica (1905) expedition to the Barents Sea and Kara Sea (1907) expedition to Greenland, Spitsbergen...