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Captain John Davis (born 1784 in Surrey, England) was an American sailor and seal hunter from Connecticut, United States. [1] It is thought that he may have been the first person to set foot on Antarctica, on 7 February 1821, shortly after the first sightings of the new continent, all in 1820, by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on (28 January), Edward Bransfield on (30 ...
Palma was born in Fortín Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, and weighed 3.4 kg (7 lb 8 oz). His father, Captain Jorge Emilio Palma, was head of the Argentine Army detachment at the base. [1] While ten people have been born in Antarctica since, Palma's birthplace remains the southernmost.
John Biscoe (28 April 1794 – 1843) was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the areas named Enderby Land and Graham Land along the coast of Antarctica. The expedition also found a number of islands in the vicinity of Graham Land, including the Biscoe Islands that were named after him.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram", 1910–12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 at Project Gutenberg; The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 Antarctic 1910–1913 at Project Gutenberg; South: the story of Shackleton's 1914–1917 expedition at Project Gutenberg; Anthony, Jason C. (2012).
Carl Anton Larsen was born in Østre Halsen, Tjolling, the son of Norwegian sea captain Ole Christian Larsen and his wife Ellen Andrea Larsen (née Thorsen). [1] [6] His family subsequently relocated to nearby Sandefjord, the home of the Norwegian whaling industry, where at the young age of 9 he went to sea in a small barque with his father chasing seals and trading across the North Atlantic ...
Christensen made four trips to the Antarctic with her husband on the ship Thorshavn in the 1930s, becoming the first woman to see Antarctica, the first to fly over it, and—arguably—the first woman to land on the Antarctic mainland. [1] [6] [7] In 1931, Christensen sailed with Mathilde Wegger. The expedition sighted and named Bjerkö Head on ...
However, his fascination for the Antarctic continued and he took part in two further expeditions; in 1960-61 with Operation Deep Freeze V which sought to isolate the virus of the common cold; and ...
[3] [1] Smith interpreted this as referring to the ice floes and icebergs in the Southern Ocean, due to the ice floes being similar to arrowroot powder (referring to Tacca leontopetaloides, Polynesian arrowroot). [1] This has led others to conclude that Ui-te-Rangiora was the first person to discover Antarctica. [1] [4]