Reference:4330 Jean Charcot and the French Polar Expedition in 1908-1910 to the South Pole, c. 1930

Bust of Jean Charcot, to right. A view of the ship Pourquoi Pas?, moored in iced sea. EXPEDITIONS POLAIRES FRANCAISES. By Paul Richer / Emmanuel Lindauer. Bronze. 68 mm. (2.75 inches) in diameter.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Notes: Jean Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), French scientist and polar explorer, who in 1908-10 surveyed and mapped the west coast of the Antarctic on the Pourquoi Pas? In 1936, Charcot attempted to reach Greenland, but his ship foundered off the coast of Iceland and he drowned.