
The Explorers Club is an American-based international multidisciplinary
professional society with the goal of promoting scientific exploration and field study. The club was founded in
New York City in 1904, and has served as a meeting point for explorers and scientists worldwide.
The Explorers Club hosts an annual dinner to honor accomplishments in exploration, which is known for its adventurous, exotic cuisine.
History
In 1904, a group of men active in exploration met at the request of noted journalist, historian, and explorer
Henry Collins Walsh Henry Collins Walsh (1863–1927) was a journalist, historian, explorer of Central America and Greenland, a founding member of the Arctic Club of America (1894), and the nominal founder of The Explorers Club (1904).
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, to form an organization to unite explorers in the bonds of good fellowship and to promote the work of exploration by every means in its power.
Joining Walsh were
Adolphus Greely,
Donaldson Smith,
Carl Lumholtz,
Marshall Saville
Marshall Howard Saville (1867–1935) was an American archaeologist, born in Rockport, Massachusetts. He studied anthropology at Harvard (1889–1894), engaged in field work under F. W. Putnam, and made important discoveries among the mound build ...
,
Frederick Dellenbaugh
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (September 13, 1853 – January 29, 1935) was an American explorer.
Biography
He was born in McConnelsville, Ohio on September 13, 1853, and was educated in the United States and in Europe. An explorer of the Amer ...
, and
David Brainard. After several further informal meetings, The Explorers Club was incorporated on October 25, 1905. Women were first admitted in 1981, with a class including
Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Alice Earle ( née Reade; born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic explorer-in-residence since 1998. Earle was the first female chief scien ...
and