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This list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized as early as the writings of Ptolemy in the 1st century AD, the South Pole was not reached until 1911.
During the Antarctic part of this expedition, Dumont d'Urville team performed the first experiments to determine the approximate position of the South magnetic pole, and landed on Débarquement Rock in the Géologie Archipelago) just 4 km from the mainland, where he took mineral and animal samples
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
This list includes all the main Antarctic exploration ships that were employed in the seventeen expeditions that took place in the era between 1897 and 1922, known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. A subsidiary list gives details of support and relief vessels that played significant roles in the expeditions they were commissioned to ...
En route to the Antarctic, the expedition visited Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, and Montevideo. Belgica was received particularly enthusiastically in Rio, where a large Belgian community lived. Frederick Cook, an American, joined the expedition there. The Brazilians were also very interested in the Belgian scientific undertaking.
a commercial and scientific expedition to the Persian Gulf in 1901; the first Antarctic expedition (1903-1905) of Jean-Baptiste Charcot. de Gerlache began on this voyage but returned to Belgium when the ship reached Madeira [8] expedition to the Greenland Sea on board the Belgica (1905) expedition to the Barents Sea and Kara Sea (1907)
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (2 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
The Second German Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1913 was led by Wilhelm Filchner in the exploration ship Deutschland. Its principal objective was to determine whether the Antarctic continent comprised a single landmass rather than separated elements, and in particular whether the Weddell Sea and Ross Sea were connected by a strait .