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Year |
Leader |
Outcomes |
Notes |
| ~650 | Ui-te-Rangiora | Reported sailing to a place of terrible cold where the sea was covered with a white powder and things like great white rocks rose high into the sky. | Polynesia (canoes) |
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1502 |
-- |
Probable
sighting of South Georgia |
Portugal
(T. A. Vespucci) |
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1578 |
Drake |
Loose
ice sighted 56 ° S of Magellan Straits |
England |
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1599 |
Gherritz |
Discovered
South Shetlands (disputed) |
Netherlands
(Ship: Blijde Boodschap) |
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1675 |
de
la Roche |
Discovered
South Georgia |
England |
| 1739 | Bouvet | Discovered Cape of Circumcision, which is now called Bouvet Island | France (Ships: Aigle & Marie) |
| 1756 | Guyot | Circumnavigated South Georgia | Spain (Ship: León) |
| 1771/72 | Kerguelen- Trémarec | Discovered Kerguélen Group | France (Ships: Fortune and Gros-Venture) |
| 1772 | Marion & Crozet | Discovered Prince Edward Island and Croset Island | France, (Ships: Mascarin & Marquis de Castries) |
| 1772/75 | Cook | Circumnavigated world just above the Antarctic circle. Landed on South Georgia Island. First to cross Antarctic circle (January 17, 1773). Discovered South Sandwich Islands | English. (Ships Resolution and Adventure) |
| 1773 | Kerguelen- Trémarec | de Rochegude aboard L'Oiseau claims W. Coast of Kerguelen | France (Ships: Rolland, Oiseau & Dauphine) |
| 1776 | Cook | Visits and maps Kerguelen. Also discovers Prince Edward, Marion, and Crozet Islands. | England (Ships: Resolution & Discovery) |
| 1790 | Oyarvido | Discovers Shag Rocks | Spain (Ship: Principessa) |
| 1799 | Rhodes | Maps north and east coast of Kerguelen. Maps very accurately for the time. | England (Ship: Hillsborough) |
Go to: Exploration Timeline: Early 1800s
Information from:
70 South (2003). Antarctic Explorers. Online: http://www.70south.com/resources/history/explorers/
Cameron, I. (1974). Antarctica: The last continent. London: Cassell & Company. pp. 243-247.
Carrol, P. (2003). The South Atlantic and subantarctic islands. Online: http://www.btinternet.com/%7Esa_sa/
Kosack, H.P., (1955). Geographische Handbücher die Antarktis, Keysersche Heidelberg: Verlagbuchhandlung. pp.261-285
Seattle P-I.com (1999). History of Antarctica. Online:http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/antarctica/about/history.shtml
South Pole.com (2003). Antarctic Explorers. Online. http://www.south-pole.com
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