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Antarctic


2008 160 square mile part of the Antarctic ice shelf disintegrates

1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed

1987 Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic

1962 British Antarctic Territory forms

1961 Antarctic Treaty goes into effect

1958 Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Brighton, South Australia, at age 76

1958 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days

1956 58 degrees F (15 degrees C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)

1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base

1937 R B Heywood, director, British Antarctic Survey

1936 Australian Antarctic Territory created

1931 Ken Takakura, Goichi Oda, Kita Japan, actor, Story of Antarctic

1908 Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer, British Antarctic Survey

1882 Douglas Mawson, born in Yorkshire, England, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole

1865 Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl

1800 James Clark Ross, explorer, British Antarctic

1787 James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer, Weddell Sea

1773 Captain James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66 degrees 33' S)


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