- Vitus Bering Bering
- V. V. Stefansson Stefansson
- Umberto Nobile
- Sir William Edward Parry
- Sir John Franklin Franklin
- Sir James C. Ross
- Sir Hubert Wilkins Wilkins
- Sir Ernest Shackleton Shackleton
- Salomon A. Andree
- Robert John McClure
- Robert F. Scott
- Și Robert Peary E Peary
- Robert A Bartlett
- Roald Amundsen Roald Amundsen
- Paul A. Siple
- Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold
- Nathaniel Brown Palmer
- Matthew Alexander Henson
- Lincoln Ellsworth Ellsworth
- K. J. V. Rasmussen
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