Polar explorer
The term that used to call scientists, travellers, adventurers who explored the polar regions of the Earth. Nowadays there is mainly scientific or technical staff working in bases in Arctic or Antarctic or members of scientific or sport expedition to that both areas.
Photo: Members of wintering staff in Polish Polar Station Hornsund on Spitsbergen during field works, photo: Piotr Andryszczak.
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