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In 1773 James Cook was the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle which is a imaginary line south from the equator.
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The first recorded sightings of the Antartic continent were made by three men: a Russian named Fabian van Bellinhausen; a British Officer named Edward Bransfield and; an American called Nathaniel Palmer.
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In 1831 Englishman James Clark Ross located the South Magnetic Pole.
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James Ross also discoverd what we now call the Ross Sea which is named after him.
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Dougals Mawson was born on the 5th of May in Yorkshaire, England in 1882. When he was two years old he moved to Austraila and grew up there.
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Ernset Shackleton, an Antarctic explorer, died on the 5th January 1922 in South Georgia in the Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom.
