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2004–2005 – Chilean South Pole Expedition. 2004–2005 – Tangra 2004/05 created Camp Academia. 2005 – Ice Challenger Expedition travelled to the South Pole in a six-wheeled vehicle. [21] 2005–2006 – Spanish Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Ramon Larramendi, reached the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility using kite-sleds. [22]
Eleven of the expedition party and 28 dogs were put ashore, and Port Martin Station was established some 60 km to the west of Cape Denison where Douglas Mawson had wintered 40 years before. [6] The party spent a full year doing weather and astronomical research. [7]
1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition was a 6,021-kilometre (3,741-mile), 220-day expedition and the first-ever non-mechanized crossing of Antarctica. [1] The six-member, international team was co-led by U.S. team member, Will Steger and French team member, Dr. Jean-Louis Étienne .
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition; Second German Antarctic Expedition; Shackleton–Rowett Expedition; List of Antarctic exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922; South Polar Times; South Pole–Queen Maud Land Traverse; Southern Cross Expedition; Southern Ocean Expedition; Swedish Antarctic Expedition
Antarctica" The Sōya sailed south from Japan for the frozen continent of Antarctica, only to run into difficult obstacles along the way. Though Kuramochi, Inuzuka, and nine other members of the crew who were desperate to prove themselves desired to winter in Antarctica as the First Cross-Winter Antarctic Expedition team, the leader of the crew ...
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 ...
The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. It was the first expedition to reach the South Pole overland for 46 years, preceded only by Amundsen's expedition and Scott's expedition in 1911 and ...
The expedition had nine scientific goals related to observations, mapping, and measurements of environmental, biological, and marine changes associated with climate change. [14] On 8 December 2013 the ship, with 74 people on board — four journalists, 19 scientists, 26 tourists, the expedition leader's wife and two children, and 22 crew ...