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Expeditions in Antarctica before the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, 1897 1780s to 1839 – American and British whalers and sealers make incidental discoveries. 1819 – William Smith discovers South Shetland Islands ( 62°00′S 58°00′W / 62.000°S 58.000°W / -62.000; -58.000 ), the first land discovered south of 60 ...
Eleven of the expedition party and 28 dogs were put ashore, and Port Martin Station was established some 60 km to the west of Cape Denison where Douglas Mawson had wintered 40 years before. [6] The party spent a full year doing weather and astronomical research. [ 7 ]
Aleixo Garcia, also known in Spanish as Alejo García, (died 1525) was a Portuguese explorer and conquistador in service to Spain. He was a castaway who lived in Brazil and explored Paraguay and Bolivia. On a raiding expedition with a Guaraní army, Garcia and a few colleagues were the first Europeans known to have come into contact with the ...
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This timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and ... c. 1524 – Aleixo Garcia travels westward ... [60] 1615–16 – Étienne ...
Pytheas of Massalia apparently circumnavigated the British Isles circa 325 BC, though his account of the exploration is lost, except for references to it in the works of classical historians. Jacques Cartier; 1534–1535; first circumnavigation of Newfoundland. García de Nodal; 1619; first circumnavigation of Tierra del Fuego.
The Garcia class was a larger version of the Bronstein class. The Garcias were followed by the similar Brooke class , which was given guided missile armament. The Bronstein ocean escort was a response to the development of high speed nuclear submarines in the late 1950s.
Kharkovchanka close to the Zhongshan Station in Antarctica (2014). Kharkovchanka (Russian: Харьковчанка) or Kharkivyanka (Ukrainian: Харків'янка, "Woman of Kharkiv"), code name: Manufacture 404S, is a model of Antarctic off-road vehicle made circa 1957–1958 in the Soviet Union, designed and built by the Kharkov Transport Engineering Plant, Ukraine [1]: 8:14–15:46 and ...