The
Explorers Club
The Explorers Club
is an international multidisciplinary professional society
dedicated to the advancement of field research and the
ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore.
Since its inception in 1904, the Club has served as a
meeting point and unifying force for explorers and scientists
worldwide. Our headquarters is located at 46 East 70th
Street in New York City. Click here
for a virtual tour of our Club.
Promoting
Exploration for Over One Hundred Years
Founded in New York City in 1904, The Explorers Club promotes
the scientific exploration of land, sea, air, and space
by supporting research and education in the physical,
natural and biological sciences. The Club's members have
been responsible for an illustrious series of famous firsts:
First to the North Pole, first to the South Pole, first
to the summit of Mount Everest, first to the deepest point
in the ocean, first to the surface of the moon—all
accomplished by our members.
The Club provides
expedition resources including funding, online information,
and member-to-member consultation. And our famed annual
dinners honor accomplishments in exploration. But probably
the most powerful resource available to those who join
the Club is fellowship with other members—a global
network of expertise, experience, technology, industry,
and support. The Explorers Club actively encourages public
interest in exploration and the sciences through its public
lectures program, publications, travel program, and other
events. The Club also maintains Research Collections,
including a library and map room, to preserve the history
of the Club and to assist those interested and engaged
in exploration and scientific research.
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Lorie
Karnath, president of the Explorers Club with the
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Carrying the Flag
The Explorers Club flag represents an impressive history
of courage and accomplishment and has been carried on hundreds
of expeditions by Club members since 1918. To carry the
Club flag is an honor and a privilege. It has flown at both
poles, from the highest peaks of the greatest mountain ranges,
travelled to the depths of the ocean, to the lunar surface,
and outer space. A flag expedition must further the cause
of exploration and field science. Today there are 202 numbered
flags, each with its own history.
Anthropologists to Zoologists
The Explorers Club, which has some thirty chapters in
the United States and around the world, is characterized
by the great diversity of its members' backgrounds and
interests. The seven founding members included two polar
explorers, the curator of birds and mammals at The American
Museum of Natural History, an archaeologist, a war correspondent
and author, a professor of physics and an ethnologist.
Today the membership includes field scientists and explorers
from over sixty countries whose disciplines include: aeronautics,
anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biology, ecology,
entomology, mountaineering, marine biology, oceanography,
paleontology, physics, planetology, polar exploration,
and zoology.
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