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The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton , the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent.
The expedition, which took three years of preparation, was organized by Will Duffy, an American Christian pastor and disbeliever of the flat Earth theory who invited a total of forty-eight content creators so that they could witness and livestream the Midnight sun, a natural phenomenon which contradicts most flat Earth theories and is dismissed ...
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]
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
west of Scott Island, Antarctica 1948 Fire (building) 2 Hope Bay fire [28] Base D, Hope Bay, Graham Land, Antarctica 1 survivor 1959 Aircraft: 2 Marble Point plane crash [29] Marble Point, Antarctica 3 survivors 1969 Aircraft: 2 Mount McLennan helicopter crash [30] Taylor Valley, Antarctica 6 survivors 1987 Aircraft: 2 D-59 plane crash [31] [32]
The station is managed by the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute and was named after the support vessel Mirny captained by Mikhail Lazarev during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen on Vostok. Mirny Station was damaged by a fire on Sunday 21 June 2020. [3]
The government also began deliberating on cancelling the third Antarctic expedition. 8. "Our Heroes Have No Glory" All eleven members of the First Japanese Cross-Winter Antarctic Expedition team reached back safely to Japan. Most of them went back to their respective jobs before embarking on the Antarctica expedition.
4 January Edmund Hillary, leading an expedition using farm tractors equipped for polar travel, arrives at the Pole, the first expedition since Scott's to reach the South Pole over land; part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. [6] Hillary was the first New Zealander to reach the South Pole overland.