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Antartic Events.....

By lex1

  • Captain James Cook.....

    Captain James Cook.....
    Captain James Cook became the first known European to cross the Antarctic Circle when he was sent again to discover if another great land lay east of Australia, in 1773.
    Pack ice and the solid freezing of the ship's sails prevented further exploration of the region.

  • Carsten Borchgrevink........

    Carsten Borchgrevink........
    In 1895 Carsten Borchgrevink joining a Norwegian whaling expedition, he brought back a collection of the first specimens of vegetable life within the Antarctic Circle.

  • Adrein De Gerlache.....

    Adrein De Gerlache.....
    On 28 February 1898, de Gerlache's expedition became trapped in the ice of the Bellinghausen Sea, near Peter Island. Despite efforts of the crew to free the ship, they quickly realised that they would be forced to spend the winter on Antarctica.

  • Race To The South Pole..........

    Race To The South Pole..........
    The first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four others arrived at the pole on 14 December 1911, five weeks ahead of a British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition the Terra Nova Expedition got there second . Amundsen and his team returned safely to their base, but theTerra Nova Expedition all died on there jouney back to base.

  • A Walk Across The Ice......

    A Walk Across The Ice......
    28 men walk for less then miles aross drifting ice they set up camp there on the drifting ice.

  • The Endurance Sinks...

    The Endurance Sinks...
    The Endurance was the three-masted ship in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. She was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway and was crushed by ice, causing her to sink, three years later in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.

  • A walk Across The Ice 2......

    A walk Across The Ice 2......
    While the men where asleep the ice drifted to the north wich put the men bacck where they started.

  • The First Permanent Settelmemt In Antartica

    The First Permanent Settelmemt In Antartica
    Was bilt around this time.

  • The Antartic Treaty

    The Antartic Treaty
    The Antarctic Treaty System is the whole complex of arrangements made for the purpose of regulating relations among states in the Antarctic.

  • The First Baby.......

    The First Baby.......
    The first baby was born around this time.