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Martin Frobisher's Northwest Passage Voyages (1576–1578)

1576 - 1583

John Rae and the 1854 Report on Franklin's Fate (1853–1859)

1853 - 1859

Japanese Antarctic Expedition (Nobu Shirase, 1910–1912)

1909 - 1912

International Polar Year 2007–2008 research campaigns

2004 - 2010

International Geophysical Year polar programs (1957–1958)

1952 - 1959

International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) operations and deployments (1979–present)

1974 - 2026

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Endurance, Ernest Shackleton, 1914–1917)

1914 - 1917

ICESat and ICESat-2 polar ice altimetry missions (2003–present)

2003 - 2025

Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (ISMIP6) and related experiments (2018–present)

2016 - 2025

Heroic Age Antarctic Huts and Stations (Discovery Hut, Scott's Hut, Framheim, 1902–1922)

1902 - 1922

Henry Hudson's Northwest Passage Searches (1607–1611)

1607 - 1611

GRIP and GISP2 Greenland ice-core drilling projects (1989–1997)

1988 - 1997

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