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Timeline of antarctica

By mattvuk

  • Cpt. Cook Crosses Antarctic Circle

    His comment - "I make bold to declare that the world will derive no benefit from it".

  • Time ever a party of men spent a winter in Antarctica.

    An officer and ten men from a British sealing ship the Lord Melville had to spend the winter on King George Island -part of the South Shetlands group

  • Carsten Borchgrevink leads a British expedition

    Carsten Borchgrevink leads a British expedition that landed men at Cape Adare and built huts.

  • Captain Scott, UK, leads his first Antarctic

    To try to reach the South Pole, with Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson

  • Mawson Makes it to the south pole

  • First to fly over antarctica

    Australian Sir George Wilkins and American Carl Benjamin Eielson are the first to fly over Antarctica around the peninsula region.

  • Antractic Treaty