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- History_of_Antarctica abstract "The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD.The rounding of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn in the 15th and 16th centuries proved that Terra Australis Incognita ("Unknown Southern Land"), if it existed, was a continent in its own right. In 1773 James Cook and his crew crossed the Antarctic Circle for the first time but although they discovered nearby islands, they did not catch sight of Antarctica itself. It is believed he was as close as 150 miles from the mainland.In 1820, several expeditions claimed to have been the first to have sighted the ice shelf or the continent. The very first was the Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. The first landing was probably just over a year later when American Captain John Davis, a sealer, set foot on the ice.The first Norwegian expedition to Antarctica was led by Captain Carl Anton Larsen aboard the barque Jason in 1892. During the expedition he was the first to discover fossils in Antarctica, for which he received the Back Grant from the Royal Geographical Society. In December 1893 he also became the first person to ski in Antarctica where the Larsen Ice Shelf was named after him. Larsen is also considered the founder of the Antarctic whaling industry and the settlement at Grytviken, South Georgia.Once the North Pole had been reached in 1909, several expeditions attempted to reach the South Pole. Many resulted in injury and death. Norwegian Roald Amundsen finally reached the Pole on December 14, 1911, following a dramatic race with the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott.".
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- History_of_Antarctica name "South: the story of Shackleton's 1914–1917 expedition".
- History_of_Antarctica name "The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910–12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2".
- History_of_Antarctica name "The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 Antarctic 1910–1913".
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- History_of_Antarctica originalResearch "August 2011".
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- History_of_Antarctica comment "The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD.The rounding of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn in the 15th and 16th centuries proved that Terra Australis Incognita ("Unknown Southern Land"), if it existed, was a continent in its own right.".
- History_of_Antarctica label "Geschiedenis van Antarctica".
- History_of_Antarctica label "Histoire de l'Antarctique".
- History_of_Antarctica label "Historia de la Antártida".
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- History_of_Antarctica label "História da Antártica".
- History_of_Antarctica label "Odkrycia i badania Antarktydy".
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- History_of_Antarctica label "История Антарктики".
- History_of_Antarctica label "تاريخ القارة القطبية الجنوبية".
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