Polar exploration was one of the fields in which the astrocompass saw the most use, for the reasons described above.
Order of the Polar Star | Mars Exploration Rover | exploration | Palestine Exploration Fund | Exploration | Zarya (polar ship) | The Polar Express | Polar Studios | Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle | International Institute for Species Exploration | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea | Vision for Space Exploration | South Polar Skua | Scott Polar Research Institute | polar region | Little America (exploration base) | International Polar Year | Byrd Polar Research Center | Urban exploration | The Polar Express (film) | The Little Polar Bear | Polar region | Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration | Mineral Exploration Research Centre | Exploration of Mars | Crew Exploration Vehicle | Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research | Winston-Salem Polar Twins | The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons | Space Exploration Vehicle |
The museum is located in Avraam Melnikov's Neoclassical church from the 1820s and remains the largest museum dedicated to polar exploration in the world.
James Ellsworth was vitally interested in polar exploration and donated vast sums of money to Roald Amundsen's expedition to the North Pole in 1925, in which Lincoln was a pilot.