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Milorgknausane nunataks, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica 1979 Aircraft: 3 Molodezhnaya Ice Station plane crash [21] near Molodezhnaya Ice Station, Antarctica 11 survivors 1989 Aircraft: 3 Mirny Station plane crash [22] Mirny Station, Antarctica 1999 Aircraft: 3 Terre Adélie helicopter crash [23] near the Dumont d'Urville Station, Terre Adélie ...
Members of Antarctic expeditions who have met their deaths while in the service of such expeditions, or as an immediate consequence thereof. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Explorers of Antarctica .
Antarctic expedition deaths (15 P) U. Unsolved deaths in Antarctica (2 P) This page was last edited on 10 November 2024, at 02:12 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Nevertheless, in February 1907, Shackleton presented to the Royal Geographical Society his plans for an Antarctic expedition, the details of which, under the name British Antarctic Expedition, were published in the RGS newsletter, Geographical Journal. [18] The aim was the conquest of both the geographical South Pole and the South Magnetic Pole.
Left to right: Roald Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting after first reaching the South Pole on 16 December 1911. 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 ...
Emeritus professor Rainer Goldsmith, 96, was a doctor, physiologist and academic whose life was changed forever through expeditions to Antarctica.. In 1955 he was appointed as doctor, dentist and ...
This list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized as early as the writings of Ptolemy in the 1st century AD, the South Pole was not reached until 1911.
The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship ...