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Sep 1, 1519
Wondering about Antarctica
Ferdinand Magellan travels the Pacific ocean and discovers a strait south to the land Tierra del Fuego, a land early geographers thought was the edge of a southern continent. -
Sep 1, 1578
False discovery
Explorer Francis Drake finds himself blown southerward in a sotrm in the straits of Magellan and proves Tierra del Fuego is not a part of any Southern Continent. -
Passing through
Captain James Cook and his crew become the first men to cross the Antarctic Circle. -
Seeing it for the first time
Fabian Gottlied von Bellinghausen, a Russian explorer, becomes the first person to see the lands of the Antarctic. -
Southern record
James Weddell (Englishman) sails 74 degrees south holding the record as the furthest travelled south. No one was able to penetrate the sea for another 80 years. -
Antarctic Coastline
Frenchman Jules-Sebastian Dumont d'Urville discovers a strech of the Antarctic Coastline. -
Ross Sea
Victoria Land (located in Antarctica) is discovered by Sir James Clark Ross who enters the sea now known as the Ross sea. -
Surviving the Antarctic Winter
Carsten Borchgrevink and his crew land at Cape Adare. They become the first men to survive the Antarctic Winter by building huts. -
Journery to the South Pole
Arch enemies Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen plan to be the first men to visit the South Pole. Heading across the Ross Ice Shelf, they suffer from snow blindness and scurvy -
Giving up
Ernest Shackleton and his crew attempt to reach the South Pole within 30 days but fall severly ill and abandon their attempt. -
South Pole!!!!
Roald Amundsen and his 4 crew members reach the South Pole having discovered a route that only took 57 days and leave letters for Scott and the Norwegian flag planted in the ice. -
The long lost journery
Robert Flacon Scott and his crew reach the South Pole but are only left with the Norwegian flag and the letters from Amundsen. On their return trip, they all die of malnutrition and frostbite. -
Saving the crew
ENDURANCE. crashes and he sets out to find help with 5 talented crew members in a small lifeboat called the James Caird. They successfully return to save their men on the YELCHO. All of them survived. -
BANZARE
The British, Autralian and New Zealand exoedition (BANZARE) in charge after Douglas Mawson and discover Mac. Robertson land.
