|Born||15 July 1867 |Died||16 September 1936 at sea, off Iceland
|Occupation||Polar explorer, doctor| Jean-Baptiste Charcot (15
July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a
French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father
was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Jean-
Baptiste Charcot was appointed leader of the French Antarctic
Expedition with the ship Français exploring the west coast of
Graham Land from 1904 until 1907. The expedition reached
Adelaide Island in 1905 and took pictures of the Palmer
Archipelago and Loubet Coast. From 1908 until 1910, another
expedition followed with the ship Pourquoi-Pas, exploring the
Bellingshausen Sea and the Amundsen Sea and discovering Loubet
Land, Marguerite Bay and Charcot Island, which was named after
his father, Jean-Martin Charcot. Later on, Jean-Baptiste Charcot
explored Rockall in 1921 and Eastern Greenland and Svalbard from
1925 until 1936. He died when the Pourquoi-Pas? was wrecked in a
storm off the coast of Icela