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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
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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