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In addition, a small unclaimed area from 1939 was annexed in June 2015. [7] Positioned in East Antarctica, it makes out about one-fifth of the continent, and is named after the Norwegian Queen Maud (1869–1938). In 1930, the Norwegian Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen was the first person known to have set foot in the territory. On 14 January 1939, the ...
She built a jury rig and diverted to Cape Town where she spent two months repairing her yacht, [2] [6] before recommencing her voyage to circumnavigate Antarctica and became the first female solo sailor to circumnavigate Antarctica with one stop. [1] [7] The whole trip, including the stop in Cape Town, took 183 days 7 hours and 21 minutes. [8]
The geography of Antarctica is dominated by its south polar location and, thus, by ice. The Antarctic continent, located in the Earth 's southern hemisphere, is centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle. It is washed by the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean or, depending on definition, the southern ...
On that date, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (U.S. Board on Geographic Names) confirmed the place name in Antarctica for Gibbs as the first black explorer to set foot on the continent. [1] [2] Gibbs Point is a rock point forming the northwest entrance to Gaul Cove , on the northeast of Horseshoe Island, Marguerite Bay, Antarctic ...
Explorer, marinejeger (former), saturation diver. Years active. 1986–present. Børge Ousland (born 31 May 1962 [1]) is a Norwegian polar explorer. He was the first person to cross Antarctica solo. [2] He started his career as a Norwegian Navy Special Forces Officer with Marinejegerkommandoen, and he also spent several years working as a deep ...
Peter I Island (Norwegian: Peter I Øy) [1] is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Bellingshausen Sea, 450 kilometres (240 nmi) from continental Antarctica.It is claimed as a dependency of Norway and, along with Bouvet Island and Queen Maud Land, composes one of the three Norwegian dependent territories in the Antarctic and Subantarctic.
Jarrod Vincenzo Rebecchi, commonly known as " Toadfish " or " Toadie ", is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Ryan Moloney. He made his first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 23 January 1995. Toadie was created by writer Elizabeth Packett.
Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen. Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen (8 October 1913 – 25 October 1996) [1] was a Norwegian who was the first person born and raised south of the Antarctic Convergence, in Grytviken, South Georgia in 1913. [2] Her father, Fridthjof Jacobsen (1874–1953), settled in South Georgia in 1904 to become assistant manager, and from ...