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    Jan 15, 2024Proof that Antarctica was once populated! Or not. In fact, the "Antarctica" that Piri Reis depicted was likely hypothetical — it was widely believed for centuries that the world ought to include a southern continent to balance out the landmasses on the other side of the world.
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    The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was an era in the exploration of the continent of Antarctica which began at the end of the 19th century, and ended after the First World War; the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition of 1921-1922 is often cited by historians as the dividing line between the "Heroic" and "Mechanical" ages. [1][2][3]
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    May 26, 2024The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw an intense period of exploration in Antarctica, as explorers from around the world raced to be the first to reach the South Pole and unlock the secrets of Earth's last great wilderness. This period, from about 1895 to 1922, is known as the "Heroic Age" of Antarctic exploration, a time of both stunning achievements and heartbreaking tragedies.
  6. 4.1.1 Exploration Remote, inaccessible, and inhospitable, Antarctica was the last continent to be discovered, and knowledge of the south polar region was accumulated slowly. Until the present century the interior of Antarctica was unknown, and even the continental margins had been seen in only a few places. Of the world's 61,000 nonfiction papers and books published about the Antarctic since ...
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    Jul 8, 2024No continent is more remote or lesser-known than Antarctica. And unlike the others, the White Continent lacks a native human population, and was genuinely discovered —without the sketchy colonial undertones of that overused term—only in the last few centuries. In this article, we'll explore some of the history of Antarctica from that standpoint of discovery, emphasizing the early ...
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    Mar 24, 2023No era of polar history has received more attention than the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. Its three most famous explorers - Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, and Ernest Shackleton - have been the subjects not only of academic research, but also of novels, plays, films, television programmes, and exhibitions at major museums. Rather than retelling in detail a familiar story, this ...
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    The mainland of the most southern continent was first discovered 200 years ago, and a spirit of exploration still colours visits to the frozen continent today.
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    Smith was convinced this referred to Antarctica. However, the consensus of modern scholarship (including from Ngai Tahu Maori) is that seventh century Polynesian sailors reaching the Antarctic is unlikely. For context, this is at least four centuries before Polynesians reached New Zealand. Did Polynesians reach Antarctica?

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    History of Antarctica

    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, 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. Although he discovered new islands, he did not sight the continent itself. It is believed that he came as close as 240 km from the mainland. On 28 January 1820, a Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev reached 69° 21' south latitude, 2° 15' west longitude, and on 2 February, 66° 25' south latitude, 1° 11' west longitude, at both of which positions he was stopped by the pack. Wikipedia

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