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