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Matthew Flinders; 1801–1803; first circumnavigation of Australia (without Tasmania). Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen; 1820–1821; first circumnavigation of Antarctica (without New Zealand). Robert McClure; 1850–1854; first both to circumnavigate the Americas, and to transit the Northwest Passage. All by sea save for a 550-mile stretch ...
On 5 October 2011, 0900UTC. MV Polar Bound arrived at Whitehaven UK completing his sixth solo circumnavigation and fourth Northwest Passage transit.. When Polar Bound called at Honolulu for a brief refueling stop in June 2011, before continuing up to Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, agents for NASA were trying to find a vessel which would undertake a 900-mile journey out into the Pacific to try ...
By the end of his circumnavigation, Eruç had set several ocean rowing world records including the first person to row three oceans, [6] the first rower to cross the Indian Ocean from Australia to mainland Africa (in two segments), [7] the longest distance rowed across the Indian Ocean, [8] and the longest distance rowed across the Atlantic ...
She built a jury rig and diverted to Cape Town where she spent two months repairing her yacht, [2] [7] before recommencing her voyage to circumnavigate Antarctica and became the first female solo sailor to circumnavigate Antarctica with one stop. [1] [8] The whole trip, including the stop in Cape Town, took 183 days 7 hours and 21 minutes. [9]
The first woman scientist to work in Antarctica was Maria Klenova in 1956. [146] Silvia Morella de Palma was the first woman to give birth in Antarctica, delivering 3.4 kg (7 lb 8 oz) Emilio Palma at the Argentine Esperanza base 7 January 1978.
Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 [1] – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer.
Aurora Australis, the first book produced in Antarctica, during the Nimrod Expedition; Avro Shackleton, British long-range maritime patrol aircraft used by the Royal Air Force, named after him; RRS Ernest Shackleton, a research ship formerly operated by the British Antarctic Survey; Shackleton crater, an impact crater near the south pole of the ...
Børge Ousland (born 31 May 1962 [1]) is a Norwegian polar explorer.He was the first person to cross Antarctica solo. [2]He started his career as a Norwegian Navy Special Forces Officer with Marinejegerkommandoen, and he also spent several years working as a deep sea diver for the oil industry in the North Sea.