Antarctic History

Why is Antarctica cold?

  • Antarctic History
  • Early Explorers
  • First speculations
  • The Age of Exploration
  • Ferdinand Magellan
  • Sir Francis Drake
  • James Cook (1768-1771)
  • James Cook (1772-75)
  • James Cook The Final Voyage
  • Thaddeus von Bellingshausen (1819-21)
  • Who first saw Antarctica?
  • Who first set foot on Antarctica?
  • James Weddell (1822-24)
  • Sealers and whalers
  • Biscoe and the Enderby Brothers
  • Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville (1837-40)
  • Charles Wilkes (1838-42)
  • James Clark Ross (1839-43)
  • The Challenger Expedition (1872-76)
  • Adrien de Gerlache (1897-1899)
  • Henryk Johan Bull (1894-95)
  • Carsten Borchgrevink (1898-1900)
  • Heroic Age
  • Douglas Mawson Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14)
  • Ernest Henry Shackleton British Antarctic Expedition (1907-09)
  • Ernest Shackleton Imperial Transantarctic Expedition: 1914-17
  • Ernest Shackleton The Quest (1920-1922)
  • Ernest Shackleton The Ross Sea Party (1915-17)
  • Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Auguste Charcot French Antarctic Expeditions (1903-05)
  • Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Auguste Charcot French Antarctic Expeditions (1908-10)
  • Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld Swedish South Polar Expedition: (1901-04)
  • Roald Engelbreth Gravning Amundsen The Norwegian bid for the South Pole (1909-11)
  • Robert Falcon Scott The last voyage (1910-12)
  • Robert Falcon Scott – British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-04)
  • Scott – The Other Expeditioners

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