Angelo Heilprin

He is mostly known for the part he took into the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892 and for his observations and photographs of the 1902 eruption of Montagne Pelée in Martinique.

He studied at the Royal School of Mines, London,[3] at the Imperial Geological Institution of Vienna, and at Florence (where he had his only formal training in painting) and Geneva; he also went to Hungary, where he mountaineered in the Carpathians, and to Poland where he visited family for six months.

He also shed light on questions about the geology of the Yucatan and the coral reefs of the western Gulf of Mexico.

[11] En 1891 Heilprin embarked with Robert Peary on an expedition to Greenland organized by the Academy of Natural Sciences.

[14][15] In 1902, when Montagne Pelée in Martinique erupted,[16] reducing the city of Saint-Pierre to ashes, Heilprin was one of the first scientists to arrive to the site.