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The Impossible Row is a documentary from the Discovery Channel.It follows explorers as they row across the Drake Passage and become the first in history to do so. The journey took 12 days and ended on December 25, 2019 with the six crew members reaching Antarctica.
[27] [28] If these other claims are false, the crew of the Norge would be the first explorers verified to have reached the North Pole, when they floated over it in the Norge in 1926. [5] [26] If the Norge expedition was the first to the North Pole, Amundsen and Oscar Wisting were the first men to have reached both geographical poles, by ground ...
The first women to have any fanfare about their Antarctic journeys were Caroline Mikkelsen who set foot on an island of Antarctica in 1935, [144] and Jackie Ronne and Jennie Darlington who were the first women to over-winter in Antarctica in 1947. [145] The first woman scientist to work in Antarctica was Maria Klenova in 1956. [146] Silvia ...
Ice floes in the Southern Ocean. Ui-te-Rangiora or Hui Te Rangiora is a legendary Polynesian navigator who sailed to the Southern Ocean and is sometimes claimed to have discovered Antarctica in the early seventh century on the vessel Te Ivi o Atea. [1]
Pages in category "Documentary films about Antarctica" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Encounters at the End of the World is a 2007 American documentary film by Werner Herzog about Antarctica and the people who choose to spend time there. It was released in North America on June 11, 2008, and distributed by ThinkFilm. [2] At the 81st Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature.
On November 24, 2019, Yes Theory and Seek Discomfort announced that it had sponsored Anders Hoffman who went on to be the subject in their first ever feature length documentary titled “Project Iceman”. The film captured Hoffman’s attempt to become the first human to complete a long-distance triathlon in Antarctica and was directed by Kandil.
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 ...