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Antarctic events

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  • 400

    400 B.C. Greeks came up with the name Antarctica

    The Ancient Greeks suggest that a southern continent exists.
  • 450

    Antarctica named

    Antarctica is named by the Greeks

  • Captain Cook found Antarctica

    In January Captain James Cook crossed the Antarctic circle

  • First people to see Antarctica

    Russia’s Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, England’s Edward Branfield and the U.S.’s Nathaniel Palmer all claim the title first people to see Antarctica.

  • James Weddell discovers the Weddell Sea

    British Whaler James Weddell discovers the sea named after him, the Weddell Sea

  • Antarctica proved a continent

    American Charles Wilkes proves Antarctica is a continent rather than a group of islands by sailing along more than 1,500 miles of coast.

  • Adrien De Gerlache trapped in ice

    Adrien de Gerlache's crew became trapped in a pack of ice

  • Captain Scott leads his first Antarctic expedition

    The UK's Captain Scott leads his first Antarctic expedition to try to reach the South Pole with Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson

  • Ernest Shackleton leads the expedition

    Ernest Shackleton leads the expedition to within 156 km/ 97 miles to the South Pole

  • Douglas Mawson reaches the South Pole

    Australian Douglas Mawson reaches the South Magnetic Pole

  • Roald Amundsen leads a 5 man expeditions

    Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen discovers the South Pole.

  • Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole

    Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole and realised he had been beaten by Amundsen

  • Ernest Shackleton returns to Antarctica

    His goal was to cross Antarctica but sadly, their trip got crushed in sea ice and rescued in 1917

  • Sir Hubert Wilkins and Carl Benjamin Eilson fly over Antarctica

    Australian Sir Hubert Wilkins and American Carl Benjamin Eilson are first to fly over Antarctica and arount the Peninsula Region

  • Caroline Mikkelsen is the first women to set foot in Antarctica

    Norwegian Caroline Mikkelsen is the first women to set foot in Antarctica when she accompanies her husband, a whaling captain.

  • US sends the largest expedition

    The US sends the largest ever expedition of 4700 men, 13 ships and 23 planes. most of the coast was photographed for map making

  • US aircraft lands in the South Pole

    First people there since Sott in 1912

  • International Geophysical Year (IGY)

    12 nations establish over 60 stations

  • Antarctic Treaty signed

    12 countries sign the Antarctic Treaty in Washington D.C. It states that the land is only to be used for peaceful purposes

  • Boerge Ousland is the first person to cross Antarctica unsupported

    It took him 64 days from Berkner Island to Scott base towing 180 kg sled and using skis and a sail

  • A chunk of ice seperated

    A chunk of ice about the size of Rhode Island separates from the Larsen B Ice Shelf.

  • The International Polar Year

    It goes over two years so the researches have research in the polar region.

  • A 160-square-mile block of ice breaks off

    A 160-square-mile block of ice breaks off from the Wilkins Ice Shelf, in western Antarctica.