American Polar Society

The American Polar Society was founded in 1934 by August Howard.

Honorary members

Starting in 1936 the following explorers, arctic scientists and geographers have been honored:

• David Legge Brainard (1936). He was the first to receive an honorary membership.
• Richard Evelyn Byrd (1938).
• Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1940).
• Lincoln Ellsworth (1944).
• Frank Debenham (1949). He died in 1965.
• Paul Allman Siple (1957). He died in 1968.
• Louise Arner Boyd (1959).
• Finn Ronne (1960).
• Bernt Balchen (1966).
• Laurence McKinley Gould (1969).
• Thomas Charles Poulter (1973).
• Richard B. Black (1979). He died in 1992.
• Norman Dane Vaughan (1980).
• Lincoln A. Washburn (1981).
• Charles F. Passel (1982).
• Thomas H. Manning (1983).
• Conrad Shinn (1984).
• Graham Westbrook Rowley (1985).
• Waldo Kampmeier Lyon (1986)
• William Robert Anderson (1987)
• Joseph Otis Fletcher (1988)
• Norbert Untersteiner (1989)
• Max Brewer (1990).
• James Francis Calvert (1991)
• Martin Arthur Pomerantz (1992).
• James R. Reedy (1993).
• Beaumont Buck (1994).
• David C. Nutt (1995).
• Charles R. Bentley (1996).
• Wilford Frank Weeks (1997). He was born in 1929.
• Kenneth Utuayuk Toovak, Sr. (1998).
• Robert Hoxie Rutford (1998).
• Anthony J. Gow (2004).
• James Van Allen (2006).

External links

• Official website