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Captain Cook and his crew became the first men to cross the Antarctic circle.
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Fabian Gottlieb Von Bellingshausen became the first person to spot land on Antarctica!
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John Weddell went the fartherest south into the Antarctic, which is why the Weddel Sea bears its name.
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Adrien de Gerlache and his crew became the first to survive an Antarctic winter. Brrrr!!!!
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Scott and Shackleton and three other men attemted to walk to the South Pole and were unsuccsessful to reach the pole.
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Race to the South Pole!!!
The First succesful trip led by Amundsen -
Scott, led a trip to the South Pole. He got there second because Amundsen beat him there. All five died, Evans had frost bite and cut one of his fingers and Oats had a sore foot and said:
" I'll just going outside, you won't see me for a while" but no one saw him ever again...
The other three, Scott, Wilson and Bowers were stuck inside thier tent all winter and got burried in by a blizzard and got frozen. inside. -
On December 5th, the "Endurance" leaves the icy island, South Georgia, and reaches the Antartica Pennisula.
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30th Oct - 1st Nov
A walk across the ice to the distant land begins.
the 28 men walk for less than 2 miles, then they set up an Ocean Campon a drifting ice!!!! -
Some scientists found out about the ozone layer in the stratoshere that was being polluted.
