Antarctica Timeline

Timeline for world fair project for geography class.

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The Greeks predict that there is a continent on the bottom of the world

530 B.C.

The Greeks predict that there is a contenint on the bottom of the world that balances the earth. Naming it Antarktos or "opposite the Arctic"

International Geophysical Year

January 1, 1957 - December 31, 1957

Antarctic treaty signed by 12 nations

December 1 1959

A treaty stating that Antarctica would be peacefully used for science

International Antarctic Glaciological Project

January 1, 1965 - December 31, 1965

International Polar Year

January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2007

Explorers From the United Kingdom

Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees latitude, the farthest anyone has ever reached

1772 - 1774

Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees latitude, the farthest that anyone has ever reached.

Captain James Weddell finds Weddell Ice sheet and sea

1822

Henry Foster finds Deception Island

1828 - 1831

John Biscoe finds islands around Graham Land

1830 - 1832

Captain Ross discovers Victoria Land, Mount Erebus, and Ross Ice shelf and sea

1839 - 1843

James Clark Ross

Captain Robert Falcon Scott was the first person to explore by land

1901 - 1904

conducted magnetic, astronomical, and meteorological observations.

Scott's second trip to Antarctica

1910

A group of 3 zoologists collect embryos of emperor penguins

June 1911

so that they could study the birds more closely

Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South pole

January 17, 1912 - January 18, 1912

Captain Shakelton sets sail with 27 men

December 1914 - August 1916

Expedition Graham Land led by John Cope

1920 - 1922

Land Expedition led by John Rymill

1934 - 1937

Explorers from Norway

First over winter stay on Antarctica

1898 - 1900

Captain Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South pole

December 14, 1911

after a 53-day march with dog sledges from the Bay of Whales.

Caroline Mikkelsen became the first known woman to set foot in Antarctica

1935

Explorers From America

Captain John Davis landed on the continent at Hughes Bay

1821

and found hunting grounds for seals

Edith Rhonne and Jennie Darlington-the first women to winter in Antarctica

1947

Explorers From Scottland/Ireland

William Smith and James Bransfield discovered the South Shetland Islands

1819 - 1820

Charles Wyville Thompson studies the ocean depths

1872 - 1876

Scottish Antarctic Expedition

1902 - 1904