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  Captain Cook found Antarctica. Crossed the Antarctic circle in his big wooden ship. Which had supplies and crew members.
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  William Smith and James Bransfield discovered the south Shetland islands. They also discovered the shore of the Antarctic peninsula.
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  He discovered the Weddell Sea by going further south.
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  He circum navigated antarctica in the Tula.
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  He travelled here i n his ship the Astrolabe and discovered Adelie land.
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  he discovered the Ross sea, the Ross ice shelf, Victoria land and Mount Erebus.
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  Ross crossed the antarctic circle.
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  An expidition led by Scott traveled to Antarctica for scientific reasons. Roald arrived at the South Pole.
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  Shackleton, his crew and his ship Endurance got stuck in the ice and got crushed,
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  Richard flew to the south pole and back in a three engine fokker called the Floyd Bennet. He went really heigh due to throwing all emergency food out of the plane.
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  noweign leader Lars Christensen claims the island of Bouvetoya.
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  Ross planned an expidition to the Antarctic circle.
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  This science project lasted from July the 1st 1957 till December the 1st 1958. It marked the end long period in the cold war.
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  A plane known as 321 crashed on take off in east Antarctica.
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  Roald the first man in Antarctica died in this year.
