| Year (s) | Aim of expedition | People |
| 1245-1247 | Journey to Mongolia | Benedykt Polak |
| 1578 & 1579 | Envoys to Crimea | M.Broniewski |
| 1583-84 | Journey to Palestine, Syria and Egypt | M.Radziwill (Sierotka) |
| 1596 | Journey to India through Portugal | K.Pawlowski |
| 1629-1638 | Expedition to Brazil (with Dutch military expedition) | K.Arciszewski |
| 1643-1659 | Nature investigations and cartographic surveys in China, India and South-eastern Asia | M.Boym |
| 1661-1671 | Expedition to the Lena drainage basin | A.Kamienski (Dluzyk) |
| 1702-1729 | Expedition to Persia, Afghanistan Turkey, Palestine and Arabic Peninsula | T.Krusinski |
| 1773-1776 | The attempt of Madagascar conquest | M.Beniowski |
| 1778-1805 | Journeys to Turkey, Northern Africa, Mongolia and Caucasus | J.Potocki |
| 1795-~1810 | Expedition to Yakutsia and Kamchatka | J.Kopec |
| 1817-1820 | Journey to Arabic Peninsula (Mekka), Syria, Mesopotamia and Turkey | M.Rzewuski |
| 1827-1832 | Linquistic investigations in China and Mongolia | J.Sz.Kowalewski |
| 1834-1843 | Scientific journey around the world (North and South America, Polynesia, New zeland, South-eastern Australia, Tasmania, South-eastern Asia) | P.E.Strzelecki |
| 1838-1888 | Geographical, geological and ethnographical investigations in Chile | I.Domeyko |
| 1841-1842 | Expedition to the Nile River sources | T.F.Bartmanski |
| 1844-1853 | Floristic investigations in Central and South America | J.Warszewicz |
| 1847-1849 | Floristic investigations during expedition to the Nile River sources | L.Cienkowski |
| 1847-1865 | Triangulation surveys in Caucasus | J.Chodzko |
| 1865-1878 | Zoological investigations in Guiana and Peru | K.Jelski |
| 1865-1882 | Zoological, hydrological and ethnographical investigations in Siberia and Kamchatka | B.Dybowski |
| 1866-1867 | Zoological investigations in Northern Africa | A.S.Waga, W.Taczanowski |
| 1870-1894 | Nature and ethnographical investigations in Micronesia, Melanesia and New Zeland | J.S.Kubary |
| 1871-1875 | Geological and geographical investigations in Siberia | A.P.Czekanowski |
| 1871-1883 | Geographical and geomorphological investigations in Siberia | J.Czerski |
| 1875-1884 | Zoological investigations in Ecuador and Peru | J.Sztolcman |
| 1875-1890 | Floristic and geographical investigations in Southern Africa | A.Rehman |
| 1878-1893 | Ethnographic investigations in Yakutsia | W.Sieroszewski |
| 1881-1905 | Linguistic investigations in Yakutsia | E.Piekarski |
| 1882-1883 | First crossing across Southern Island of Nowaja Ziemlja | L.Hryniewiecki |
| 1882-1895 | Geological and ethnographical investigations in Southern and Central America | J.Siemiradzki |
| 1883-1884 | Archeological investigations in Turkey and Syria | K.Lanckoronski |
| 1883-1885 | Geographical and ethnographical investigations in Cameroon | S.Rogozinski, L.Janikowski, K.Tomczek |
| 1885-1889 | Ethnographical investigations and topographical surveys in mountains of Central Asia | B.Grabczewski |
| 1886-1902 | Geological investigations in Turkey, Central Asia, Siberia and Alaska | K.Bohdanowicz |
| 1886-1905 | Ethnographical investigations on Sakhalin and Hokkaido | B.Pilsudski |
| 1888-1890 | Geological, geographical and floristic investigations in Argentina and Chile | H.Zapalowicz |
| 1891-1894 | Geographical investigations in Congo and near Tchad Lake | J.Dybowski |
| 1894-1912 | Linguistic investigations in Siberia and Northern Mongolia | W.Kotwicz |
| 1896-1899 | Floristic and ethnographic investigations on Java | M.Raciborski |
| 1897-1899 | Geographic and geophysical investigations in Antarctica (on Belgica, expedition of A. de Gerlache) | H.Arctowski, A.B.Dobrowolski |
| 1907-1909 | Anthropological and ethnographical investigations in Central Africa | J.Czekanowski |
| 1909-1910 | Zoological investigations in Eastern and Central Africa | A.W.Jakubski |
| 1910 | First Polish scientist on Svalbard | H.Arctowski |
| 1914-1919 | Floristic investigations in Ural Mts., Caucasus and Armenia | B.Hryniewiecki |
| 1921-1924 | Zoological investigations in Brazil | T.Chrostowski, T.Jaczewski |
| 1932-1933 | Wintering on the Bear Island | Cz.Centkiewicz, Lysakowski, S.Siedlecki |
| 1934 | First expedition on Spitsbergen | S.Bernadzikiewicz, Mogielnicki, S.Z.Rozycki, B.Zagrajski, A.Zawadzki |
| 1937 | First expedition on Greenland | A.Kosiba, S.Bernadzikiewicz, A.Gawel, A.Jahn, S.Siedlecki, R.Wilczek, A.Zawadzki |
1957-1960 | Scientific investigations on Spitsbergen during International Geophysical Year | J.Dylik, A.Jahn, A.Kosiba, S.Z.Rozycki, S.Siedlecki |
| 1959 & 1966 | First Polish Antarctic expeditions | Station Dobrowolski |
| 1960- | Archeological investigations in Egypt | K.Michalowski (Leader), many Polish teams |
1960- 1970- | Astronomical investigations in Africa | K.Kordylewski (Leader) and coworkers |
| 1975- | Permanent scientific investigations on Spitsbergen, since 1978 | Polar Station Hornsund, many Polish teams |
| 1975 | First geomorphological expedition to Australia | L.Babelek, M.Borowka, P.Gonera, A.Kostrzewski (Leader), K.Rabski, Zb.Zwolinski |
| 1975-1976 | First Polish oceanographic expedition on Antarctic seas | Research ship Profesor Siedlecki |
| 1977- | First permanent Polish scientific station in Antarctica, King George Island | S.Rakusa-Suszczewski (Leader), Antarctic Station Henryk Arctowski, many Polish teams |
| 1979-1981 | Kayak expedition to the deepest canyon on the World: Colca Canyon, Andes, Peru | J.Majcherczyk with friends |
| 1995 | Unsupported expeditions on foot to the both Poles in one year | M.Kaminski, North Pole together with W.Moskal |