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The ExploraPoles website

ExploraPoles is one of the websites of the International Polar Foundation.

It provides an overview of polar expeditions and explorers. We hope that, through adventure, one can discover these fabulous regions and their importance for our planet's climate system.

Three other complementary websites focusing on various aspects of the IPF activities are available: IPF website, SciencePoles and EducaPoles.

Latest news

  • 518 km in one day !

    29 Jun. 2009 - Kite Greenland 2009

    Because this expedition has stopped sending back any dispatches in English and is only publishing its updates in Norwegian, we will be restricting ourselves from now on to the bare facts and figures about the progress of their adventure. Sorry about that. ...

  • Waiting for the wind

    29 Jun. 2009 - Emirates NBD Greenland Quest

  • Stopover in Nome

    29 Jun. 2009 - Arctic Calling

  • Finally off and drifting...

    29 Jun. 2009 - Farewell to the sea-ice

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Recent Expeditions

  • Drifting on the sea-ice

    Farewell to the sea-ice

    Greenland - ongoing

    20 Jun. 2009 - 15 Aug. 2009

    Three French nationals, Emmanuel Hussenet, Luc Dénoyer and Catherine Meta, are attempting ...

  • Going for the North-West Passage

    Arctic Calling

    Arctic - ongoing

    5 Jun. 2009 - 30 July 2009

    French skipper Thierry Fabing is attempting to make another crossing of the fabled North-West Passage ...

  • 2300 km from south to north

    Kite Greenland 2009

    Greenland - ongoing

    2 Jun. 2009 - 25 July 2009

    Two Norwegians, Hugo Rolf Hansen and Bjorn Einar Bjartnes, have set out on what they intend to be ...

  • Inspire teachers, changing lives

    TAE57-58 Fuchs Foundation

    Arctic - success

    1 May. 2009 - 25 June 2009

    Following their last year experience (see our coverage) and waiting for the next expedition in the ...

  • Adrian Hayes

    Emirates NBD Greenland Quest

    Arctic - ongoing

    25 Apr. 2009 - 31 Aug. 2009

    Adrian Hayes and two Canadians, Devon McDiarmid and Derek Crowe, will attempt to traverse Greenland ...




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