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Captian Cook was first to cross the antartic circle.
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen became the first person to spot land on the continent.
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James Weddell sailed with another company aboard with their boat.They reached the Ross ice shelf.
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Robert and four others sledged to 90 degrees celsius.
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Shackelton and his crew stranded on elephant to try and make it to south georgia to find a whaling station and signal help.
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Gives up polar sea flight.Organization of the naval aviation section of the MacMillan arctic expedition was completed on this very day.
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First flight over antarctica.
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First reached the south pole 2 weeks before Scott
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Reached top of Mount Erebus
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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
