Antarctica

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  1. National Geographic: Antarctica's Islands of Ice  Lisa: Good article
  2. South-Pole.com: Antarctic Time Line of Discovery
  3. Wikipedia: Antarctica
  4. CIA - The World Factbook: Antarctica
  5. Polar Discovery: Antarctica Timeline
  6. National Science Foundation: Antarctica - Past and Present
  7. YouTube Video: Antarctica Time lapse: A Year on Ice (Time: 6:16)


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Antarctica Exploration Time Line

  • 1773: James Cook crosses the Antarctic circle and circumnavigates Antarctica
  • 1819-21: Captain Thaddeus Bellingshausen a Russian naval officer, first to cross the Antarctic circle since Cook
  • 1823: British whaler James Weddell discovers the sea named after him, and no one else is able to penetrate the Weddell sea again for 80 years
  • 1840's: Great Britain, France and America, all on separate expeditions, establish the status of Antarctica as a continent
  • 1898: Adrien de Gerlache and the crew of the "Belgica" become trapped in pack ice, becoming the first to survive an Antarctic winter involuntarily
  • 1899: Carsten Borchgrevink leads a British expedition, and is the first to winter on the Antarctic landmass
  • 1902: Captain Robert Falcon Scott, leads his first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole, forced to turn back two months later and suffering from snow blindness and scurvy
  • 1907-09: Ernest Shackleton tries to reach the South Pole, but had to turn back because supplies were exhausted
  • 1909: Douglas Mawson reaches the Magnetic South Pole
  • 1911: Roald Amundsen a Norwegian reaches the South Pole
  • 1912: Britain's Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole but was beaten by Roald Amundsen
  • 1923: Ross Sea had large-scale factory ship whaling
  • 1928: Australian Sir George Wilkins and American Carl Benjamin Eielson fly over the peninsula region
  • 1929: U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd was the first to fly over the South Pole
  • 1935: Caroline Mikkelsen, Norway is the first woman to set foot on Anarticia
  • 1947: Operation Highjump from the United States, sends the largest ever expedition of over 4700 men, 13 ships and 23 airplanes to Antarctica for map making
  • 1956: United States aircraft lands on the South Pole, first there since 1912
  • 1957-58: 12 nations establish over 60 stations in Antarctica called the International Geophysical Year
  • 1961: Antarctic Treaty is set
  • 1997: First person to cross Antarctica unsupported, was Boerge Ousland of Norway
  • 2007-09: International Polar Year is allowing researchers the opportunity to work in both polar regions or work summer and winter

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