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Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French Polar Scientist

Jean-Baptiste Auguste Étienne Charcot (July 15, 1867 - September 16, 1936) was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. He was appointed leader of the French Antarctic Expedition with the ship Français exploring the west coast of Graham Land from 1904-07. The expedition reached Adelaide Island in 1905 and took pictures of the Palmer Archipelago and Loubet Coast. From 1908-10, another expedition followed with the ship Pourquoi-Pas, exploring the Bellingshausen Sea and the Amundsen Sea and discovering Loubet Land, Marguerite Bay and Charcot Island, which was named after his father, the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. He explored Rockall in 1921 and Eastern Greenland and Svalbard from 1925-36. He died when the Pourquoi-Pas was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Iceland in 1936.
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Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French Polar Scientist
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Jean-Baptiste Auguste Étienne Charcot (July 15, 1867 - September 16, 1936) was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. He was appointed leader of the French Antarctic Expedition with the ship Français exploring the west coast of Graham Land from 1904-07. The expedition reached Adelaide Island in 1905 and took pictures of the Palmer Archipelago and Loubet Coast. From 1908-10, another expedition followed with the ship Pourquoi-Pas, exploring the Bellingshausen Sea and the Amundsen Sea and discovering Loubet Land, Marguerite Bay and Charcot Island, which was named after his father, the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. He explored Rockall in 1921 and Eastern Greenland and Svalbard from 1925-36. He died when the Pourquoi-Pas was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Iceland in 1936.
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