The Arctic voyages of Louis-Philippe-Robert, Duc d'Orléans

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2009
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Svalbard; Kara Sea; Greenland; Jan Mayen; Île-de-France; Gerlache; De Gerlache; Vorota; Matochkin Shar; Belgica Bank; Maroussia; East Greenland; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247409008377; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247409008377

ABSTRACT Louis-Philippe-Robert, Duc d'Orléans (1869–1926), the Orléans claimant to the French throne, mounted four private expeditions to the Arctic, in 1904, 1905, 1907, and 1909. During the first of these, on board his private yacht, Maroussia , and accompanied by his wife, Marie Dorothée, he...