Dr Reginald Koettlitz (1860–1916): Arctic and Antarctic explorer

• Published in: Journal of Medical Biography
• Main Author: Guly, Henry
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Franz Josef Land; Harmsworth; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/jmb.2011.011010; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1258/jmb.2011.011010; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1258/jmb.2011.011010

Reginald Koettlitz was born in Ostend but moved to England as a child and qualified at Guy's Hospital. He was a general practitioner in County Durham for eight years before serving as doctor and geologist to the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz-Josef Land in 1894–97. Thereafter he made fu...