[{"n": "Robert Peary", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/robert-peary/", "s": "American explorer who claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1909."}, {"n": "Matthew Henson", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/matthew-henson/", "s": "American explorer who claimed to be first to reach the North Pole."}, {"n": "Vivian Fuchs", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/vivian-fuchs/", "s": ""}, {"n": "Vitus Bering", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/vitus-bering/", "s": "Danish-born Russian explorer who charted Asia and North America."}, {"n": "Willem Barentsz", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/willem-barentsz/", "s": "Dutch navigator who sought the Northeast passage and wintered on Novaya Zemlya."}, {"n": "Douglas Mawson", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/douglas-mawson/", "s": "Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age."}, {"n": "Edward Parry (Royal Navy officer, born 1790)", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/edward-parry-royal-navy-officer-born-1790/", "s": "Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer who set a Farthest North record."}, {"n": "Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/fabian-gottlieb-von-bellingshausen/", "s": "Russian cartographer and explorer who discovered Antarctica."}, {"n": "Ferdinand von Wrangel", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/ferdinand-von-wrangel/", "s": "Russian explorer and governor of Russian settlements in Alaska."}, {"n": "Frederick Cook", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/frederick-cook/", "s": "Explorer whose polar and summit claims remain disputed."}, {"n": "Fridtjof Nansen", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/fridtjof-nansen/", "s": "Norwegian explorer, scientist and Nobel Peace laureate who skied across Greenland and drifted north in Fram."}, {"n": "Roald Amundsen", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/roald-amundsen/", "s": "Norwegian polar explorer; first to reach the South Pole."}, {"n": "Richard E. Byrd", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/richard-e-byrd/", "s": "US naval aviator and polar explorer who claimed the first flights to both poles."}, {"n": "Semyon Dezhnev", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/semyon-dezhnev/", "s": "Russian explorer who first sailed the Bering Strait in 1648."}, {"n": "Artur Chilingarov", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/artur-chilingarov/", "s": "Polar explorer, Hero of the Soviet Union and Russia."}, {"n": "Fyodor Matisen", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/fyodor-matisen/", "s": "Russian naval officer, hydrographer, and Arctic explorer."}, {"n": "Matvei Gedenshtrom", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/matvei-gedenshtrom/", "s": "Swedish-born explorer of Arctic Siberia and cartographer."}, {"n": "Ivan Papanin", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/ivan-papanin/", "s": "Soviet polar explorer who led the first drifting ice station."}, {"n": "Vladimir Rusanov", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/vladimir-rusanov/", "s": "Russian geologist and Arctic explorer who vanished in the Kara Sea."}, {"n": "Fedot Alekseyevich Popov", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/fedot-alekseyevich-popov/", "s": "Russian explorer who organized the first Bering Strait expedition."}, {"n": "Mikhail Lazarev", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/mikhail-lazarev/", "s": "Russian fleet commander and Antarctic explorer."}, {"n": "Alexander Kuchin", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/alexander-kuchin/", "s": "Russian oceanographer and Arctic explorer who vanished in the Kara Sea."}, {"n": "Rudolf Samoylovich", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/rudolf-samoylovich/", "s": "Soviet polar explorer and Arctic research pioneer."}, {"n": "Anatoly Sagalevich", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/anatoly-sagalevich/", "s": "Russian deep-submergence pilot and polar explorer."}, {"n": "Mikhail Lavrov", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/mikhail-lavrov/", "s": "Russian rear-admiral and Arctic explorer."}, {"n": "Nikifor Begichev", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/nikifor-begichev/", "s": "Russian and Soviet seaman and polar explorer."}, {"n": "Pyotr Anjou", "u": "/e/polar-explorers/pyotr-anjou/", "s": "Russian admiral and Arctic explorer of the Siberian coast."}]