Which Polar Explorer are you most closely connected to?

Question

The polar exploration ship The Endurance was recently found, so we're featuring Ernest Shackleton in the Connection Finder this week.

Featured alongside him are other polar explorers:

• Roald Amundsen
• Vitus Bering
• Richard Byrd
• Jean-Baptiste Charcot
• Henry Larsen
• Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
• Lawrence Oates
• John Rymill
• Robert Falcon Scott
• Maurits Snellen

Which one is most closely connected to you? If you're one of the 25.3 million of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them? Your Relationship Finder Quick Links page (see your profile pull-down menu under "Relationships") has quick links for several notable groups.

Special feature: Check out how you're connected to other notables by using the green MyConnections button in the upper right hand corner of the category page. Browse related categories like Antarctic Explorers and Researchers, Arctic Explorers, and Explorers.

Let us know how you're related below! If you want to share your connection on social media with cousins and friends, click the "get shareable image" below the results, e.g. Ernest Shackleton and Vitus Bering. Then just upload it along with the URL of your direct connection. (Please refrain from sharing your connection on the featured profiles themselves, though. It clutters conversations on research and collaboration. Thanks!)

Help us with next week's feature: World Cup. Help us choose and improve profiles for it.

Comments

Why doesn't the Category:Polar_Explorers exist and will it be created and be added in the Subcategory list for Category:Featured_Connections?

---

Ranulph Fiennes is 21 degrees away from me through one marriage

Answer 1

I'm closest to Richard Byrd, 23 degrees from Ernest Shackleton, 36 degrees from Roald Amundsen, 28 degrees from Vitus Bering, 18 degrees from Richard Byrd, 23 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 32 degrees from Henry Larsen, 26 degrees from Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, 22 degrees from Lawrence Oates, 26 degrees from John Rymill, 22 degrees from Robert Scott, 29 degrees from Maurits Snellen.

Answer 2

I'm related to Richard Evelyn Byrd II (1888 - 1957), he is my 16th cousin 5x removed. 

Answer 3

My 6th cousin 1X removed had an Antarctic Icefield named after him. He is Ralph William Sallee US Navy CDR Retired born 26 November 1927 in Arkansas. There is 16 degrees between us.

Answer 4

23 degrees from Ernest Shackleton

32 degrees from Roald Amundsen

30 degrees from Vitus Bering

19 degrees from Richard Byrd

24 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Charcot

32 degrees from Henry Larsen

27 degrees from Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld

26 degrees from Lawrence Oates

27 degrees from John Rymill

22 degrees from Robert Scott

29 degrees from Maurits Snellen

18 degrees from Ken Spratlin

Answer 5

OMG, Ernest and I are 14th cousins twice removed, if one of my unconfident connections is true, that is! His story and the finding of the Endurance is so inspiring. 

Answer 6

I was surprised to find a 22 degree connection to Ernest Shackleton and a 25 degree connection to Robert Scott on my mother's side  There was also a 32 degree connection to Roald Amundsen on my father's side!

Answer 7

22 degrees from Ernest Shackleton, Shackleton-48, 3 branches (14-3-6); Ernest Shackleton, Shackleton-48, 1 branches (26)

35 degrees from Roald Amundsen, 6 branches (3-6-5-4-8-10)

27 degrees from Vitus Bering, 5 branches (5-1-2-7-13)

18 degrees from Richard Byrd, Byrd-964, 2 branches (8-11); Richard Byrd, Byrd-964, 1 branches (35)

21 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 5 branches (1-3-3-6-9)

31 degrees from Henry Larsen, 8 branches (1-3-3-2-3-9-5-6)

24 degrees from Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Nordenskiöld-4, 5 branches (1-5-2-3-14); Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Nordenskiöld-4, 1 branches- (43)

25 degrees from Lawrence Oates, 7 branches (7-2-2-8-2-4-1)

26 degrees from John Rymill, 6 branches (3-4-9-2-2-7)

23 degrees from Robert Scott, 3 branches (2-9-13)

31 degrees from Maurits Snellen, 6 branches (4-5-5-7-2-9)

Answer 8

I am most closely connected to Richard Byrd. The connection is 17 degrees. Plus, I have a relationship of 9th cousins with him, through both of our maternal grandfathers.

WikiTree also says that I am 9C1R through our maternal grandfathers with our Member of the Week Ken Spratlin.

Answer 9

I'm closest to Ernest Shackleton at 21 degrees, though I wonder if I'd be closer to Robert Scott (currently 23 degrees) if both Scott lines could be worked back further into Scotland!

Answer 10

Shackleton my 10th cousin 5 x removed

 Byrd II my 14th cousin 3 x removed.

Nordenskiofd  my 15th cousin 5 x removed

The others  between 20 degrees to 36 degrees

Nice fine today

Answer 11

Steven is:

• 23 degrees from Richard Byrd
• 26 degrees from Robert Scott
• 27 degrees from Ernest Shackleton
• 29 degrees from Lawrence Oates
• 31 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Charcot
• 31 degrees from Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
• 31 degrees from John Rymill
• 34 degrees from Vitus Bering
• 35 degrees from Maurits Snellen
• 37 degrees from Henry Larsen
• 38 degrees from Roald Amundsen

and 26 degrees from our Member of the Week, Ken Spratlin on our single family tree.

Answer 12

Ernest Shackleton is my 14th cousin 3 times removed and Richard Evelyn Byrd II is 15th cousin 2 times removed. Other than that my connections to the men listed are, 20 degrees from Ernest Shackleton, 35 degrees from Roald Amundsen, 28 degrees from Vitus Bering, 20 degrees from Richard Byrd, 27 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 35 degrees from Henry Larsen, 26 degrees from Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, 21 degrees from Lawrence Oates, 28 degrees from John Rymill, 25 degrees from Robert Scott, 32 degrees from Maurits Snellen and 20 degrees from Ken Spratlin

Answer 13

Wow! I am related to three of our Explorers!

1. Richard Byrd: 22 degrees and 12th/2x removed

2. Ernest Shackleton: 22 degrees and 16th/1x removed

3. Adolf Erik Nordenskiold: 27 degrees and 16/3x removed

Answer 14

Out of the people who are featured, Richard Byrd is my closest at 14 degrees. (He is my 5C3R)

Additionally, I am not sure if Jim Calvert counts (his submarine surfaced on the North Pole to spread the ashes of Polar Explorer Hubert Wilkins. So Jim was not really an explorer per say, but he did surface at the North Pole!). If he counts, he is 4 degrees from me. (WT profile here). He was married to my great aunt. :) 

Answer 15

My closest connection is to Richard Byrd at 19 degrees, as we are both Winthrop descendants.

Answer 16

• 19 degrees from Richard Evelyn Byrd II (1888 - 1957) - 11th Cousin 2 times Removed
• 20 degrees from Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874 - 1922) - 12th Cousin 5 times Removed (Unknown)
• 22 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot (1867 - 1936)
• 23 degrees from Lawrence Edward Grace Oates (1880 - 1912)
• 23 degrees from Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912)
• 26 degrees from John Riddoch Rymill (1905 - 1968)
• 27 degrees from Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832 - 1901) - 16th Cousin 6 times Removed (Uncertain)
• 29 degrees from Henry Asbjørn Larsen (1899 - 1964)
• 30 degrees from Maurits Snellen (1840 - 1907)
• 31 degrees from Vitus Jonassen Bering (1681 - 1741)
• 32 degrees from Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872 - 1928)

Answer 17

16 degrees from Richard Byrd (8th cousins, 1x removed)

21 degrees from Ernest Shackleton (13th cousins, 2x removed)

22 degrees from Robert Scott

23 degrees from Lawrence Oates

24 degrees from Jean-Baptiste Charcot

26 degrees from Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (10th cousins, 7x removed)

26 degrees from John Rymill

29 degrees from Vitus Bering

30 degrees from Maurits Snellen

34 degrees from Henry Larsen

35 degrees from Roald Amundsen

Answer 18

John Smart Peddie was an officer and surgeon aboard HMS Terror which was part of Sir John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition which left Greenhithe, England, on 19th May 1845, with a crew of 24 officers and 110 men,in search of the North West Passage.

 also Norman W. Peddie, led an 850-mile scientific expedition across East Antarctica (Queen Maud Land). 

Answer 19

Interesting categories of Antarctic explorers, Arctic explorers, Polar Explorers, Researchers,  et al.  So many, and yet I didn't find James Clark Ross or his uncle, Sir John Ross.  Sir James Clark Ross made four voyages.  The first under Lord Parry.  Between 1839-1843 he commanded HMS Erebus, on his own Antarctic expedition, and charted much of the continent's coastline.  He discovered the Ross Sea and Victoria Land on this expedition.  Linda Ross Boddy