Ante and Pia Antarctica Explorers

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    Antarctica

  • Captain James Cook crosses the Antarctic circle.

    Captain James Cook crosses the Antarctic circle.

    Captain Cook claims that he saw rock shaped icebergs. He said "I make bold to declare that the world will derive no benefit from it".
    After this, the race began to discover the land.

  • Adrien de Gerlache and crew become trapped in pack ice

    Adrien de Gerlache and his crew got stuck in pack ice on the ship 'belgica' just off the peninsula.

  • Captain Robert Scott fails to reach Antarctica

    Robert Falcon Scott led his ship the Discovery with Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson but turn back suffering blindness from the snow.

  • Roald Amundson reaches the South pole the first time

    Roald Amudson is a norwegian sailor that Reached the South Pole first with a five man crew on the ship 'Vilm'.

  • Ernest Shackleton attempts to cross the continent

    The goal was not accomplished and their ship was crushed by ice. They were rescued in 1917.

  • George Wilkons and Carl Eilsonare, first to fly over Antarctica

    George Wilkons was Australian and Carll Eilsonare was American. They flew around the peninsula region.

  • Caroline Mikkelsen is first woman to walk on Antarctica

    This Norwegian woman joined her husband( a whaling captain).

  • 60 stations are formed by 12 nations

    This is the beginning of a non-national process to take care of Antarctica.