history of antarctica

  • first signs of life found in antarctica

    Carsten Borchgrevink found lichen the first signs of plant life found
  • mankind survivves antarctic winter

    Adrien de Gerlache and his crew became the first to survive an antarctic winter
  • unsuccessfull walk to the pole

    shackelton, scott and three others lead an unsuccessfull walk to the south pole
  • shackelton almost reaches pole on a journy of his own

    shackelton almost reaches pole on his own journey
  • first successfull trip to south pole

    a race to the pole was won by Amundsen
  • scott on a trip to the south pole

    scott lost the race to the south pole
  • scott dies

    on the way back to his ship scott and co are cought in a blizzard and cannot go on the die inside their tent
  • the endurance is frozen

    shakeltons ship is frozen in sea ice
  • the endurance gets crushed

    the ship gets crushed by sea ice and is abandoned
  • enduranes crew starts a long walk

    a walk across the ice to a distant land begins. The 28 men walk less then two miles then they set up camp on drifting sea ice.