Later Years
Adrien de Gerlache participated in several other expeditions, including:
- a commercial and scientific expedition to the Persian Gulf in 1901
- the Antarctica expedition of Jean-Baptiste Charcot, which he abandoned before they reached Antarctica due to the bad atmosphere on board (1903)
- Expedition to the Greenland Sea on board the Belgica (1905)
- Expedition to the Barents Sea and Kara Sea (1907)
- Expedition to Greenland, Spitsbergen and the Frans-Jozef archipelago on board the Belgica (1909)
He had two children with his first wife, Suzanne Poulet, whom he married in 1904: Philippe (born 1906) and Marie-Louise (born 1908). After this marriage ended in 1913, de Gerlache married Elisabeth Höjer from Sweden. With her, he had another son, Gaston de Gerlache in 1919. In the 1950s, Gaston followed in his father's footsteps, participating in a Belgian research station in Antarctica.
Adrien de Gerlache died in Brussels in 1934, aged 68, from paratyphoid.
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| Name | Gerlache, Adriende de |
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| Date of birth | 2 August 1866 |
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| Date of death | 4 December 1934 |
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