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Person1778 – 1852
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Russian naval explorer who in January 1820, commanding the Vostok and Mirny, was among the first to sight the icy coast of the Antarctic continent
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In January 1820 the Russian Bellingshausen and the Briton Bransfield, days apart, sighted the icy coast and land of the Antarctic continent. Who was first is still told differently from country to country.
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- Antarctic Exploration1773 – 2014
From Cook crossing the Antarctic Circle in 1773 to the first sightings of the continent, Ross’s wall of ice, the race to the pole between Amundsen and Scott, Shackleton’s Endurance, the Antarctic Treaty and the ozone hole — two centuries of reaching for the frozen continent