Antarctica: Exploration Index

Exploration

We took risks, we knew we took them . . . Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions . . . These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale . . .

Robert Falcon Scott
29 March 1912

Every thing about Antarctica is amazing and the exploration of it is no exception.

In 1819, no one had even seen this continent. By 1958, this hostile continent had been fully explored and mapped. In just 139 years, men from all around the world of some 50 major expeditions had opened up previously unknown secrets of this deadly continent surrounded in and by ice.

Here, we give you some of the most exciting stories of courage and strength by men who trekked upon this continent of ice and snow. Some came for fame, some for money, but almost all of them have made a contribution to the exploration of the last untouched continent.

Timeline

Exploration
Timeline
Myth of Terra Incognita Australis
First sightings of mainland
First landing on the mainland
The Whalers and Sealers
Heroic Age
Reaching South Magnetic Pole
Race to the South Pole
Ernest Shackleton
Roald Amundsen
Timeline
Whole story
Robert Scott
Timeline
Whole story
Comparison of the two expeditions

Mechanised Age

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