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Original flag flown by the 'Discovery', stored at the Royal Museums Greenwich.. In 1929, members of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition on RRS Discovery used white cotton sheeting to improvise a courtesy ensign (a flag used as a token of respect by vessels while in foreign waters) for a continent without a flag of its own.
According to the flag's promoters, it signifies: "Horizontal stripes of navy and white represent the long days and nights at Antarctica's extreme latitude. In the center, a lone white peak erupts from a field of snow and ice, echoing those of the bergs, mountains, and pressure ridges that define the Antarctic horizon.
Left to right: Roald Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting after first reaching the South Pole on 16 December 1911. The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was an era in the exploration of the continent of Antarctica which began at the end of the 19th century, and ended after the First World War; the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922 is often cited by historians ...
This list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized as early as the writings of Ptolemy in the 1st century AD, the South Pole was not reached until 1911.
Members of Antarctic expeditions who have met their deaths while in the service of such expeditions, or as an immediate consequence thereof. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Explorers of Antarctica .
Mirny Station, Antarctica 1823 Shipwreck: 7 Jenny [10] Drake Passage, Southern Ocean Most likely a legend 1958 Aircraft: 7 Cape Hallett Bay plane crash [11] Cape Hallett Bay, Antarctica 6 survivors 1966 Aircraft: 6 Ross Ice Shelf plane crash [12] Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica 1986 Aircraft: 6 Philippi Glacier plane crash [13] Philippi Glacier ...
A speculative representation of Antarctica labelled as ' Terra Australis Incognita ' on Jan Janssonius's Zeekaart van het Zuidpoolgebied (1657), Het Scheepvaartmuseum The name given to the continent originates from the word antarctic, which comes from Middle French antartique or antarctique (' opposite to the Arctic ') and, in turn, the Latin antarcticus (' opposite to the north ').
Visited Antarctica during the final cruise of the Aurora, 1913–14. [20] Leslie Blake: 21 Cartographer and geologist Visited Antarctica during the final cruise of the Aurora, 1913–14. [21] Died on 3 October 1918 while on active service with the Australian Field Artillery in France. [22] Harold Hamilton: 26 Biologist