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Captain James Cook and his crew became the first men to cross the Antarctic circle
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John Davis became argubly the first person to land on the coninent.
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John Weddell went the farthest south into the antarctic, whichis why the Weddel Sea bears his name
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Sir James Clark Ross seached for the south magnetic pole.
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Adrein de Gerlache and his crew became the first to survive an Antarctic winter.
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Scott and Shackleton and three other men attemted to walk to the South Pole and were unsuccsessful.
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Shackleton almost reached the South Pole on a journey of his own
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the first successful trip to the South Pole led by Amundsen
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A British trip to the South Pole was led by Scott. He got there second.
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Scott died on the way back to the ship
