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Sir Captin James Cook
In 1772 the first well documented evidence for the existence of Antarctica came from Sir Captin James Cook. He did not actually see the icy cold continent but he was the first to enter the Antarctic circle. His expidition ended in 1773 -
Sir William Smith
In the year 1819 Sir William smith was the first to enter and discover the antarctic peninsula (the most northen mainland of antarctica) -
James weddel
Sealer James Weddel reaches the weddel sea -
John Biscoe
John Biscoe found islands around Graham land -
James Clarke Weddel
James Clarke Weddel saw Mount Erebus and found the Ross sea and ice shelf -
Henry Foster
Henry Foster found deception island -
exploration
1886 Australian Antarctic Exploration Committee formed. -
Sealers
Sealers visited the Aukland and Cambel islands from August to september -
Sir Douglas Mawson
Mawson led the Australian Antartic expidition -
Robert Falcon Scott
A leader of the race to the south pole (Robert Falcon Scott)
died on the ross ice shelf, antarctica died just 11 miles frome the nxt food mount -
Roald Amundun
Polar Explorer Roald Amundun died after arriving back from the pole from the race against Robert Falcon Scott -
BANZARE
Sir Douglas Mawson led the BANZARE expidition (British Australia New Zealand Antarctic Reasarch Expidition) -
Survey
The British Antarctic survey -
Dogs
The last dogs were removed from Antarctica
