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Nelson Island, Antarctica 1960 Fire (building) 8 Mirny Station fire [7] [8] [9] 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 ...
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 history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term Antarctic , referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle , was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD.
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 ...
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 .
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History of Antarctica by period (5 C) History of Antarctica by topic (2 C) * Events in Antarctica (3 C) Falkland Islands Dependencies (3 C, 1 P) Operation Deep Freeze ...