Iceberg

Antarctica-Explorers History

By Dragon4206

  • First Sighting

    First Sighting
    (Exact date unknown). Captain James Cook and his crew claimed they were the first to see the southern continent and cross the Antarctic Circle.

  • South Pole Failed

    South Pole Failed
    Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson and Ernest Shackleton depart for there journey to the South Pole. Heading across the Ross Ice Shelf, later they find they have failed after suffering snow blindness and scurvy.

  • Overtaken Scott

    Overtaken Scott
    Ernest Shackleton, Frank Wild, Eric Marshall and Jameson Adams trying to reach the South Pole. After 30 days they have overtaken Scott's efforts in 1902, reaching 97 miles of the South Pole.Unfortunatly the group is critcally ill which requires them to return home and abandon the mission.

  • Mission Success

    Mission Success
    (Exact date unknown) Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David and Alistair McKay go the distance by reaching the Magnectic South Pole.

  • New Track

    New Track
    Ronald Amundsen and four other members set out to reach the South Pole. Amundsen had discovered a new track that would only take 57 days.

  • Unpleasant Meeting

    Unpleasant Meeting
    Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Edgar Evans and Lawrence Oates reach the South Pole but Amundsen had been there before and marked his stop with a Norwegian flag. During the departing journey from the South Pole they all died in their tent after short supplies of food and energy.

  • New Future

    New Future
    (Exact date unknown) Douglas Mawson contiues his lonely journey across George V Land so he can rest at Commonwealth Bay. Unfortunately before Mawson's crew had died but despite the incident a new coastline was discovered and radio was used for the first time ever in Antarctica.

  • Trapped

    Trapped
    Ernest Shackleton planned to cross Antarctic but he is forced to disregard his ship, ENDURANCE, after crashing into a pack of ice. The twenty eight men rested on floating ice for five months until ther ewas an opening in the ice to let them go through ( Men later resued in 1917).

  • Shackelton Tragedy

    Shackelton Tragedy
    Ernest Shackelton dies of a heart attack at the age of 48. This tragic incident happened on board the QUEST. He was buried at South Georgia.

  • Deepfreeze

    (Exact date unknown) Twelve bases constructed for Operation Deepfreeze expeditions in South Pole.

  • Antarctic Treaty

    Antarctic Treaty signed in Washington DC by twelve nations.