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The earliest record of football on Antarctica was by the British National Antarctic Expedition in 1902. Matches in the 1910s were described by explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton . On February 5, 1948, a match was played between a British vessel, HMS Snipe, and an Argentinian ship, ARA Seaver, on Deception Island .
The ad noted that they could “teach Antarctica” but were looking for someone with resilience, empathy, and integrity to lead a diverse team of multiskilled expeditioners on a wide range of ...
Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [1]
With detailed weather station and satellite data dating back only about 40 years, scientists wondered whether these events meant Antarctica had reached a tipping point, or a point of accelerated ...
Unlike Midwinter Day, Antarctica Day is more widely celebrated off the continent than on it. Antarctic organizations based outside of the continent, such as National Antarctic Programs or the government of Antarctic gateway cities , will often observe the holiday with public programming such as talks or movie screenings.
Nearly 300 people work for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Antarctica across five research stations and on the RRS David Attenborough.
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.
The newer model has Australia and Antarctica between South America and southeast Asia, south of the Medi-Pangaean Sea. Pangaea Proxima (also called Pangaea Ultima , Neopangaea , and Pangaea II ) is a possible future supercontinent configuration.