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  2. List of Antarctic expeditions - Wikipedia

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    Expeditions in Antarctica before the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, 1897 1780s to 1839 – American and British whalers and sealers make incidental discoveries. 1819 – William Smith discovers South Shetland Islands ( 62°00′S 58°00′W  /  62.000°S 58.000°W  / -62.000; -58.000 ), the first land discovered south of 60 ...

  3. Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. History of Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    US Navy Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd led five expeditions to Antarctica during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. He overflew the South Pole with pilot Bernt Balchen on 28 and 29 November 1929, to match his overflight of the North Pole in 1926. Byrd's explorations had science as a major objective and extensively used the aircraft to explore the ...

  5. Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    French and American expeditions, led by Jules Dumont d'Urville and Charles Wilkes. John Sac, a Māori travelling with Wilkes, becomes the first New Zealander to cross the Antarctic Circle. [1] 1895. New Zealander Alexander von Tunzelmann becomes the first person to set foot on Antarctica, at Cape Adare. [2] 1899

  6. Antarctic gateway cities - Wikipedia

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    The Southern Cross docked in Hobart, Australia before its departure for Antarctica, December 17, 1898. In the 1820s when mainland Antarctica was first discovered, the current gateway cities didn't have the infrastructure to support expeditions so ships departed from more northerly ports such as Valparaíso, Chile and Sydney, Australia.

  7. Category:History of Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    Piri Reis map; R. HMS Resolution (1771) ... Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition; S. Petter Sørlle; ... Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica; Timeline of ...

  8. List of years in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 18 December 2023, at 16:26 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  9. File:Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, map and timeline.svg

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    Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 16:59, 1 December 2014: 1,702 × 1,418 (10.25 MB): LucaWist: Wrong name and some corrections in the lines of path

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