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1772-1775
Captian James Cook on the ship called Resolutionand Adventure were the first to crossthe Antartic circle. They crossed it three times. -
1820-21
English Sailors Nathaniel Palmer, Edward bransfield and William Smith first set eyes on the Antartic Peninsula with Thaddeus von Bellingshausen claiming he saw it first. -
1837-1840
The British naval officer James Clark Ross takes his ships, he went as far as he could until he was stopped by a massive ice barrier - which is called the Ross Ice -
1909
The Australian Douglas Mawson rmakes it to the South Magnetic Pole. -
1907-1909
Mr Shackleton has an expedition and gets approxiamently 156km / 97mls of the South Pole, then he has to turn back after his supplies are all gone. -
1929
the first flight over the south pole. by American Richard Byrd and 3 other people. -
1956
A US plane lands at South Pole. -
1957
1st July 1957 - 31st Dec 1958 International Geophysical Year (IGY) 12 nations establish over 60 stations in Antarctica. The beginning of international cooperation in Antarctica and the start of the process by which Antarctica becomes "non-national". The first successful land crossing via the South Pole is led by British geologist Vivian Fuchs with New Zealander Edmund Hillary leading the back up party, over 40 years after Shackleton's expedition set out with the same aim. -
1961
1961 Antarctic treaty comes into effect -
1965
Antartic has tourist, a travel company has a cruise for tourist to the Antartic Peninsula -
1977
Quantus starts to fly people over the continent on day flights. -
1985
A whaling expedition are the first confirmed landing on the east Antartica at Cape Adare. the ship name was Antartic. -
1929-31
