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Antartic timeline
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Captian Cook
Captian Cook was first to cross the antartic circle. -
First Sighting
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen became the first person to spot land on the continent. -
James Weddell
James Weddell sailed with another company aboard with their boat.They reached the Ross ice shelf. -
Robert scott
Robert and four others sledged to 90 degrees celsius. -
Shackeltons near escape
Shackelton and his crew stranded on elephant to try and make it to south georgia to find a whaling station and signal help. -
MacMillan
Gives up polar sea flight.Organization of the naval aviation section of the MacMillan arctic expedition was completed on this very day. -
Richard Byrd
First flight over antarctica. -
Roald Amundsen
First reached the south pole 2 weeks before Scott -
Edmund Hillary
Reached top of Mount Erebus -
Antarctic Treaty
The Antarctic treaty was signed by 16 countries and a little bit later the rest of the countries signed it. From then on all the countries were only allowed to do science and things related to learn about Antarctia
