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captain James Cook crossed the Antarctic circle and circumnavigates Antarctica.
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First known landing on continental Antarctica by American sealer captain John Davis.
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British Whaler James Weddell discovers the sea named after him.
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seperate British, French and American expeditions establish the ststus of Antarctica as a continent.
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Adrien de Gerlache and the crew of the ''Belgica'' become trapped in pack ice off the Antarctica Peninsula in the first scienific expedition to the continent.
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Carsten Borchgrevink leads a British expedition that landed men at Cape Adare and built huts.
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Captain Scott leads his first Antarctic expedition to try to reach the south pole with Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson.
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Leads expedition to within 156km of the south pole but turns back after supplies are exhausted.
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Douglas Mawson reaches the south Magnetic pole.
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Norwegian Roald Amundsen leads a five man expidition that reaches the South Pole for the first time.
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Robert Falcon Scott reaches the south pole to discover he has been beaten by Amundesen.
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Douglas Mawson begins his trek across George V Land back to his base at Commonwealth Bay.
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Ernest Shackleton returns to Antarctica in an attemp to complete the first crossing of the continent. This does not happen and their ship is crushed in the sea ice and a small paryt sets out for south Georgia and trhe whaling station.
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Australian Sir George Wilkins and American Carl Benjamin Eielson are the first to fly over Antarctica.
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Richard E. Byrd and three others -US- become the first to fly over the south pole.
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Lincoln Ellsworth - US- flies across the continent.
Caroline Mikkelsen, Norway, is the first woman to set foot on Antarctica. -
Operation Highjump - US- sends the largest ever expedition.
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USaircraft lands at south pole.
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12 Nations establish over 60 stations in Antarctica.
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Antarctic treaty comes into effect.
