CHARLES H. LAGERBOM
Membership Chair
American Polar Society

Charles Lagerbom claims a "passion for all things polar!"

He spent two field seasons in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica in the early 1990s as part of a Quaternary Institute glacial geology team from the University of Maine.

He is the author of The Fifth Man: Henry R. Bowers, a biography published by Caedmon of Whitby in 1999. The book is about one of the men who died alongside Captain Scott on their way back from the South Pole in 1912.

Charles with his pals in Antarctica

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An avid book reader and collector, Lagerbom has amassed a polar library of over 1,300 titles. He is the historian for the Antarctican Society and serves on its Board of Directors. He has guest-lectured on a cruise to the Antarctic and is currently compiling an index of all issues of The Polar Times.

He also belongs to other polar organizations such as the New Zealand Antarctic Society, Old Antarctic Explorers Association (New England Chapter), the Frederick Cook Society, Friends of Peary's Eagle Island and the James Caird Society. He makes his home with his wife Jennifer and their two children, Charlie (age 6) and Audrey (age 3), on the coast of Belfast, Maine, where he teaches history at the local high school.