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Antarctic Geography
Beaufort Scale
How many South Poles are there?
How thick is the ice at the South Pole?
What does Antarctica include?
What is the Antarctic Circle?
What is the difference between the poles?
What is the Size of Antarctica
What Time is it at the South Pole?
Why is Antarctica cold?
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- Early Explorers
- 01 First speculations
- 02 The Age of Exploration
- 03 Ferdinand Magellan
- 04 Sir Francis Drake
- 05a James Cook (1768-1771)
- 05b James Cook (1772-75)
- 05c James Cook The Final Voyage
- 06 Thaddeus von Bellingshausen (1819-21)
- 07 Who first saw Antarctica?
- 08 Who first set foot on Antarctica?
- 09 James Weddell (1822-24)
- 10 Sealers and whalers
- 10a Biscoe and the Enderby Brothers
- 11 Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville (1837-40)
- 12 Charles Wilkes (1838-42)
- 13 James Clark Ross (1839-43)
- 14 The Challenger Expedition (1872-76)
- 15 Adrien de Gerlache (1897-1899)
- 15 Henryk Johan Bull (1894-95)
- 16 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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