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	Adrien de Gerlache - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (2 August 1866-4 December 1934) was an officer in the Belgian Royal Navy, who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-1899.
		Born in Hasselt, Belgium, de Gerlache was educated in Brussels, Belgium.
		Adrien de Gerlache died in Brussels, Belgium on 4 December 1934 of paratyphoid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adrien_de_Gerlache (546 words)

	Belgica Expedition - Antarctica - Tierra del Fuego - Argentina
		Adrien de Gerlache of the Belgian Navy conceived, organized and led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-99.
		Gerlache, Danco, Cook, Amudsen and Arctowski spent a week (31 January to 6 February 1898) on Brabant Island, they were the first men to camp and sledge on a place in Antarctica.
		From 17 to 28 February 1898 Adrien de Gerlache explored the rim of the pack-ice of the Bellingshausen Sea.
	www.tierradelfuego.org.ar /belgica/indexseng.htm (592 words)

	Adrien de Gerlache -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (2 August 1866-4 December 1934) was an officer in the Belgian Royal Navy, who led the (Click link for more info and facts about Belgian Antarctic Expedition) Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-1899.
		After this marriage ended in 1913, de Gerlache married Elisabeth Höjer from (A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula) Sweden.
		Adrien de Gerlache died in (The capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Brussels, Belgium on 4 December 1934 of paratyphoid.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ad/adrien_de_gerlache.htm (866 words)

	Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		De Gerlache was the person who organized the first scientific expedition to Antarctica.
		Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery is born on 2 August in Hasselt (Belgium).
		Last polar journey of the Belgica under the command of Adrien de Gerlache: journey to Greenland, Spitsbergen and the Frans-Jozef archipelago.
	www.70south.com /resources/history/belgium/agerlache (555 words)

	1897 The first harsh winter is spent in Antarctica
		At the age of 29 Lieutenant Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery organised the Belgian Antarctic Expedition.
		It has been suggested that de Gerlache knew that this would mean the Belgica could be forced to spend the winter in Antarctica, leaving him the first man to endure the long Antarctic night.
		Their fate seemed desperate as the long night descended on the 17th of May. Food was in short supply and the crew quickly tired of the canned supplies and of each others company, a situation made worse by the language barrier that existed between many of them.
	www.ast.leeds.ac.uk /haverah/spaseman/firstwin.shtml (808 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: Adrien de Gerlache
		De Gerlache was an idealistic young officer with a passion to explore the southern latitudes.
		De Gerlache and Amundsen were busy with the details of preparing the ship to break free of the ice while Cook realized that the mood of the shipmates would become his responsibility.
		De Gerlache had already tasted penguin and seal meat and declared them both to be inedible.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000083.htm (2145 words)

	belgica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Originally built for whaling, the ship was purchased by Adrien de Gerlache for the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1896.
		The ship was later bought by the Duc d'Orléans who sailed with Adrien de Gerlache on several other expeditions.
		The current Belgica is a research vessel owned by the Belgian government and operated on their behalf by the Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /belgica.html (363 words)

	Belgica
		Adrien de Gerlache, a lieutenant in the Belgian navy, wanted to organize his own expedition of scientific exploration in the South Pole.
		On 29 July 1896, de Gerlache received a letter from a young Norwegian of 25 years old, Roald Amundsen who wanted to be part of the expedition, something that was accepted.
		Adrien de Gerlache and his crew were the first to spend a winter in the Antarctic and to bring back essential data for the knowledge of these regions.
	www.skovheim.org /located/troms/belgica/belgica.htm (745 words)

	South through the Pole - The longest unasisted Trans-Antarctica
		Several weeks later, de Gerlache and his men were exploring the west coast of the Antarctic peninsula, disembarking at a site where nobody had ever set foot.
		The reputation acquired by de Gerlache and his expedition on the Belgica was not simply limited to the fact that they had suffered the death of two of their crew or that they were the first to face up to the long Antarctic night.
		The expedition of de Gerlache and his crew was also the very first in the world to be entirely dedicated to science above all else.
	www.antarctica.org /FR/Expes/Expes_Antarctiques/1997_1998/Sttp_9798/1997/belgium/antarctica.html (854 words)

	Natuurinformatie - The Belgica antarctic expeditions
		On 16 August 1897, captain Adrien de Gerlache left Antwerp for the Antarctic on a robust three-master which he named Belgica.
		Adrien de Gerlache, captain of the Belgica, was, after the expedition, appointed curator at the "Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle".
		Publication of the scientific results of the Belgica was organised by the "Commission de la Belgica" which was located at the "Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle" (today the Institute).
	www.natuurinformatie.nl /ndb.kbin.en/natuurdatabase.nl/i000294.html (510 words)

	Adrien de Gerlache (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		De Gerlache was an officer in the Royal Belgian Navy.
		On 16 August 1897, de Gerlache, his international crew, and Roald Amundsen departed on the "Belgica" from Antwerp to explore the Antarctic waters.
		Following Adrien de Gerlache's footsteps, his son (Gaston de Gerlache) accompanied the Belgian Antarctic Expedition between 1957 and 1959.
	www.70south.com /resources/history/explorers/gerlache (269 words)

	Antarctic History
		In 1675, the British merchant Anthony de la Roch was blown far to the east and south of the Straits of Magellan, to a latitude of 55°S, where he found shelter in an unnamed bay.
		Whether Gerlache intended his expedition to winter in the Antarctic is unknown, but winter they did, and most of the crew were not prepared for it.
		Adrien de Gerlache considered it inedible.) Fresh meat was considered an effective means of preventing or curing scurvy, a disease which haunted nearly all early explorers.
	www.antarcticaonline.com /antarctica/history/history.htm (14180 words)

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	Adrien-Victor-Joseph, baron de Gerlache de Gomery -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Sailing with him as mate on the Belgica was Roald Amundsen, who on a subsequent expedition of his own was the first to reach the South Pole.
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	Into The Land of Mystery -Boston Transcript, Aug. 7, 1897
		Lieutenant de Gerlache, who is in command, expects that everything will be in readiness by Saturday, and that the party will get off without delay on Sunday.
		The boat's hull is protected by a formidable armor of the hardest possible wood, bois de fer, as a protection against the pressure of Antarctic ice.
		The commander of the Belgian Antarctic exploring party, as before stated, is Adrien de Gerlache, and the other members will comprise two lieutenants (one of them M. Lecointe, who served in the French navy), two engineers, a sailing-master, carpenter, two harpooners, twelve sailors, two stokers, a cook and a steward.
	ku-prism.org /polarscientist/1800sAntarctic/Aug071897Boston.html (2847 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: Jean-Baptiste Charcot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was the turn of the century and three scientific expeditions were in the organizational stage: Adrien de Gerlache's Belgian expedition (the BELGICA EXPEDITION), Carsten Borchgrevink's British expedition (the SOUTHERN CROSS EXPEDITION) and W.S. Bruce's Scottish expedition (the SCOTIA EXPEDITION).
		The voyage took two months and after arriving in Brazil, Adrien de Gerlache told Charcot of his desire to return to Belgium as his heart was with his financée and not with the expedition.
		Charcot applied a treatment recommended by de Gerlache and by September Matha was back on his feet and performing his duties.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000095.htm (2048 words)

	Adrien de Gerlache (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1896, de Gerlache purchased the Norwegian build whaling ship PATRIA, which following an extensive refit, he renamed the BELGICA.
		Together with a multinational crew, he set sail from Antwerp on 16 August 1897.
		On 28 February 1898, de Gerlache's expedition becomes trapped in the ice.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/adrien_de_gerlache (580 words)

	AllRefer.com - Antarctica : History of Exploration : Inland and to the Pole, Antarctica (Antarctic Physical Geography) ...
		The Belgian expedition under Lt. Adrien de Gerlache was beset in the pack ice in Mar., 1898, and the ship drifted west across the Bellingshausen Sea for a year before it was released.
		A British expedition led by C. Borchgrevink was the first to establish a base for wintering on the continent (Cape Adare, 1899) and the first to make sledge journeys.
		Different parts of the Antarctic Peninsula and the islands of the Scotia Arc were explored by de Gerlache (1897–98), a Swedish expedition under Dr. Otto Nordenskjold (1901–4), the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition led by W. Bruce (1902–4), and two French expeditions led by Dr. Jean B. Charcot (1903–5 and 1908–10).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Antarctica-history-of-exploration-inland-and-to-the-pole.html (706 words)

	Bluntisham Books, The Polar Specialist
		On 15 August 1903 he set sail for the Antarctic, with the Belgian explorer Adrien de Gerlache aboard for the first leg.
		Led by Lt. Adrien de Gerlache of the Royal Belgian Navy it was underfunded from the start and ill prepared to overwinter in the pack ice.
		The book has a new foreword by Baron Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery, the son of Adrien, and an extensive account of the background of the expedition by the translator, Dr Maurice Raraty.
	www.bluntishambooks.co.uk /heroic-age.htm (1904 words)

	Gerlache, Adrien de on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		(ädrē-ăN de gĕrläsh´), 1866-1934, Belgian naval officer and explorer.
		Sailing with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen who would later be the first to reach the South Pole, Gerlache led a scientific expedition to Antarctica in 1897-99.
		Gerlache planned and executed many other scientific expeditions throughout the world, including the Persian Gulf and the Arctic.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/gerlache.asp (163 words)

	Erskine Press - Antarctic Titles: Books on Antarctic Exploration, Antarctic books, Roald Amundsen, Shackleton ...
		When Charcot first decided to sail to the Antarctic he consulted the Belgian, Adrien de Gerlache, who had recently returned from his own voyage in the Belgica.
		On 15 August 1903 the Francais set sail, with de Gerlache on board, having been persuaded by Charcot to join the expedition.
		Charcot had designed the ship in such a way that every man could have a private space of his own and he was particularly proud of his choice of comestibles - and wine - and the fact that fresh bread was baked three times a week.
	www.erskine-press.com /antarctic_titles_3.htm (940 words)

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		Les icebergs sont des blocs, détachés de Ia gigantesque calotte polaire, et qui flottent au gré des vents et des courants, fondant lentement au fur et à mesure qu'ils voyagent vers les régions tempérées.
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	The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912, by Roald Amundsen
		This work was completed by February 12, and the Belgica left Gerlache Strait southward along the coast of Graham Land, at a date when all previous expeditions had been in a hurry to turn their faces homeward.
		Many have been disposed to blame Gerlache for having gone into the ice, badly equipped as he was, at a time of year when he ought rather to have been making his way out, and they may be right.
		Gerlache knew for a certainty that unless he returned with results that would please the public, he might just as well never return at all.
	worldebooklibrary.com /eBooks/Adelaide/a/amundsen_r/southpole/southpole.html (23266 words)

	MSN Encarta - Gerlache de Gomery, Adrien-Victor-Joseph, Baron de
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		Gerlache de Gomery, Adrien-Victor-Joseph, Baron de (1866-1934), Belgian naval officer who led the first expedition to Antarctica with the purpose of...
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	Etienne-Constantin, baron de Gerlache -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		He helped Leopold of Saxe-Coburg become the first king of the Belgians as Leopold I in 1831.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9036555?tocId=9036555 (576 words)

	Field Trip Earth
		We had with us Jean de Gerlache, an economist at the Belgian embassy in Paris and his wife.
		Jean is the grandson of Adrien and participated in a ceremony, going ashore by Zodiac.
		Adrien de Gerlache was the first to overwinter in the Antarctic.
	www.fieldtripearth.org /print-article.xml?id=978 (4868 words)

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