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In January, Captain James Cook crosses the Antarctic circle but he doesn't see land, but lots of rock and ice
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Captain Thaddeus Bellingshausen a Russian naval officer the, first to cross the Antarctic circle since captain Cook. He made the first sighting of the continent on Jan 27th 1820.
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February the 7th. 1st known landing on Antarctica by American sealer Captain John Davis.
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British whaler James Weddell discovers the sea named after him.
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In 1840, British naval officer James Clark Ross takes two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, within 80 miles of the coast until stopped by a massive ice barrier - now called the Ross Ice Shelf.
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The crew of the Belgica the ship become trapped in ice off the Antarctic border.
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Captain Scott, leads his first Antarctic expedition to try to reach the South Pole, with Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson.
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Ernest Shackleton leads expedition to within 156km of the South Pole, turns back after supplies are limited
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January, Australian Douglas Mawson reaches the South Pole.
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Norwegian Roald Amundsen leads a five man expedition that reaches the South Pole for the first time.
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Britain's Captain Robert Scott reaches the South Pole. He has been beaten by Amundsen. All of the five man team are to perish on the return journey only 17 km from supply depot. people are not discovered until November.
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October. Ernest Shackleton returns to Antarctica in an attempt to complete the first crossing of the continent. Their ship is crushed in the sea ice and a small party sets out for South Georgia and the whaling station. The party is eventually rescued in 1917.
