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Fram.museum.no, map of Antarctic Expeditions 1772 – 1931 at The Fram Museum (Frammuseet) SPRI.cam.ac.uk, index to Antarctic Expeditions at the Scott Polar Research Institute's website; Antarctic Expeditions, information about some of them from the British Antarctic Survey; Antarctic-circle.org, Chronologies and Timelines of Antarctic Exploration
Map of Union Glacier. The camp is operated by Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions LLC (ALE), a company that provides expedition support and tours to the interior of Antarctica. [2] [3] [4] The camp is situated near Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway SCGC a rare, naturally occurring, blue ice runway [5] that allows wheeled jet cargo aircraft to land.
Expeditions sponsored by several nations approached the Antarctic continent early in the 19th century. Among the leaders was Charles Wilkes , a U.S. Navy lieutenant who commanded an expedition in 1839–40 that was the first to prove the existence of the continent.
The camp was run by the private company Adventure Network International (now Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions LLC, known as ALE), [1] a company that provides expedition support and tours to the interior of Antarctica. [2] It was constructed in 1987 [3] and used during the summer months of November to January. [4]
The Antarctic gateway cities are five cities on the rim of the Southern Ocean through which nearly all cargo and personnel bound for Antarctica pass. [1] From west to east, they are Punta Arenas, Chile; Ushuaia, Argentina; Cape Town, South Africa; Hobart, Australia; and Christchurch, New Zealand.
Norwegian expedition landing on Peter I Island in 1929. The United States, Chile, the Soviet Union and Germany disputed Norway's claim. [18] [19] In 1938, Germany dispatched the German Antarctic Expedition, led by Alfred Ritscher, to fly over as much of it as possible. [17] The ship Schwabenland reached the pack ice off Antarctica on 19 January ...
English: Map showing the polar journeys of the Scott's Terra Nova expedition (green) and Amundsen's expedition (red) to reach the South Pole Français : Carte montrant les parcours de l'expédition Terra Nova de Scott (vert) et celle d'Amundsen (rouge) pour atteindre le Pôle Sud
The British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) under Robert Falcon Scott built its Discovery Hut on Hut Point, at the southern headland of the peninsula. Members of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 (BAE), under Scott, wintering on Cape Evans and often using the hut during their journeys, came to refer to the whole peninsula as the Hut Point Peninsula.