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It was the ancient Greeks who first came up with the idea of Antarctica.They knew about the Arctic - named Arktos -The Bear, from the constellation the great bear and decided that in order to balance the world.
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caption james cook and his crew crossed the antarica circle and discored island but did not see the main land
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On the 30 January 1820 Bransfield sighted Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic mainland.
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Ross conducted geomagnetic surveys in Terror.Penetrating the pack ice in sailing ships they found open water.
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Icebergs were exceptionally frequent during several years, with major occurrences in 1892-94, 1903-04 and 1907-09 when almost every ship sailing between Europe and Australasia reported encounters with vast fields of ice.
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in 1899 antarica was starting to hold humans in it
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In February, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, in the Français, begins his survey of the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula. The small expedition winters in the ship in an inlet on Booth Island. Over two summers they discover the Loubet Coast, Doumer Island and Port Lockroy. They chart the Biscoe Islands and generally extend Gerlache's survey of the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Shackleton's voyage was intended to be a trip to main land but failed when the boat hit pack ice
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Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was the person who traveled to the south pole
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the antarica treaty was signed
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Twice in 1902 aircraft (balloons) were used for aerial reconnaissance.
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a massive block of ice snaped off wilikens ice shelf
