THE POURQUOI PAS? FROZEN IN HER WINTER ANCHORAGE, PETERMAN ISLAND 1909 In Gallery / POLAR EXPLORERS

THE POURQUOI PAS? FROZEN IN HER WINTER ANCHORAGE, PETERMAN ISLAND 1909

In his first ship, the Francais, Francois Charcot 'Polar gentleman, explorer, scientist, doctor, philosopher' accurately surveyed the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula during 1903-05. Charcot then had built the most modern polar ship known, the Pourquoi pas? In 1908-10 he exten...