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  More info about: Antarctica
  Antarctica
Speculation over the existence of a "southern land" was not confirmed until the early 1820s when British and American commercial operators and British and Russian nationa...
         
  More info about: Antarctic Time Line of Discovery
  Antarctic Time Line of Discovery
Exploration in the Antarctic region. It is nearly impossible to exhibit a detailed chronology of exploration in the Antarctic region simply due to the fact that there hav...
         
  More info about: Adrien de Gerlache, Antarctica 1897-99
  Adrien de Gerlache, Antarctica 1897-99
Adrien de Gerlache, Belgian naval officer and explorer. Sailing with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen who would later be the first to reach the South Pole, Gerlache led...
         
  More info about: Sir Robert Falcon Scott, Polar Explorer
  Sir Robert Falcon Scott, Polar Explorer
"Scott of the Antarctic" is the most famous of all the Polar explorers. He is best known for his legendary and fatal attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. His...
         
  More info about: Roald Amundsen, First on the South Pole
  Roald Amundsen, First on the South Pole
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of 1910–1912 which was the first to reach the South Pole. Th...
         
  More info about: Sir Ernest Shackleton, Polar Explorer
  Sir Ernest Shackleton, Polar Explorer
Sir Ernest Shackleton is probably best known for leading a thousand mile open boat journey across the treacherous Southern Ocean after losing his ship to the crushing ice...
         
  More info about: Robert Scott, Journey to the South Pole
  Robert Scott, Journey to the South Pole
Sir Robert Falson Scott's last journey to Antarctica, and his race for the South Pole. On November 1st 1911, twelve men, each with a pony and sledge, left Cape Evans i...
         
  More info about: Sir Ernest Shackleton & the Endurance
  Sir Ernest Shackleton & the Endurance
Description of Sir Ernest Shackleton's voyage to the Antarctic and the subsequent sinking of the Endurance, and of his heroic escape from the White Continent....