In the 1770s this British sea captain circled Antarctica but ice packs kept him from sighting land
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10 Things You May Not Know About Captain James Cook - History ...  Apr 29, 2015 ... On April 29, 1770, the British HM Bark Endeavor became the first European ... He was being groomed to become a captain, but in 1755, he shocked his ... tantalizingly close to sighting Antarctica before pack ice forced him to turn back. ... by a lack of vitamin Cloomed over every long distance sea voyage.
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Antarctic Explorers: James Cook - South-Pole.com  His first experience at sea came at the age of 18 when he signed on as a deckhand ... Sailing west, in 1770 he sighted the east coast of Australia. ... and by the following day they found themselves at the edge of an endless pack of ice. On January 17, 1773, the ships most likely became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle.
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James Cook.doc - Silver Creek High  Cook sailed around an endless pack of ice for two months, looking for an entrance to travel ... They sighted land immediately, thinking they had found the southern continent. ... At 46 years of age, Captain James Cook was ready to sail again. .... He circled Antarctica in his famous ship Resolution, but the ice surrounding the...
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Southern Ocean - Wikipedia  The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean or the Austral Ocean, comprises the ... By way of his voyages in the 1770s, Captain James Cook proved that waters encompassed the southern latitudes of the globe. ..... investigations in the South Atlantic met the pack ice in 52 S in January 1700, but that latitude (he...
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History of Antarctica - Wikipedia  For the natural history of the Antarctic continent, see Antarctica. The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe. The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined ..... Commanding the British ships Erebus and Terror, he braved the pack ice...
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James Cook, Capt. RN FRS (1728 - 1779) - Genealogy - Geni  Sep 30, 2016 ... Captain James Cook in FamilySearch Family Tree .... He then sailed west, reaching the south-eastern coast of the Australian ... Cook's expedition circumnavigated the globe at a very high southern latitude, becoming one of the first to cross ... to explore the Antarctic, reaching 7110'S on 31 January 1774.
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Scott of the Antarctic: the lies that doomed his race to the pole | UK ...  Sep 24, 2011 ... He halted and discovered the tip of a tent. ... Scott in his naval uniform and Roald Amundsen. ... in 1909, two rival US explorers  Robert Peary and Frederick Cook ... "If Peary and Cook had not been believed, then Amundsen would not ... Pole any quicker, but his party's return  having been first to the pole...
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Flinders' voyage - State Library of South Australia  ... from 1801 to 1803, Matthew Flinders was the first to circumnavigate the island ... and were suspicious of their motives, particularly as the two countries were at war. ... of Nicolas Baudin at the location which became known as Encounter Bay.
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Captain James Cook - Wikipedia  Captain James Cook FRS RN (7 November 1728  14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. ... In three voyages Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of ..... Cape Horn and surveyed, mapped and took possession for Britain of South Georgia,...
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Amundsen's South Pole expedition - Wikipedia  The first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four others arrived at the pole on 14 December 1911, five weeks ..... "If the expedition was to be saved ... there was nothing left for me but to try and ...... 78, and Huntford (The Last Place on Earth) 1985, p. 299...
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Antarctic Explorers: Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen  Bellingshausen's flagship was a 600 ton corvette named the VOSTOK . ... 1820 Bellingshausen crossed the Antarctic Circle becoming the first to do so since ... He should have been able to see it so perhaps he simply mistook it for a wall of ice. ... snows and wind causing ice encrusted ropes and spars which concealed the...
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Sir James Clark Ross | British explorer | Britannica.com  Commanding the Erebus and Terror, he discovered the Ross Sea in 1841 and, ... toward the position assigned to the magnetic pole, also discovered Victoria Land. ... The great southern continent, which Captain Cook demonstrated could not lie in the ... Antarctic Circle (in European exploration: Polar regions); Antarctica (in...
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History of Antarctica - Wikipedia  For the natural history of the Antarctic continent, see Antarctica. The history of Antarctica ... In 1820, several expeditions claimed to have been the first to have sighted ... A Russian expedition was led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and ..... just returned from a whaling expedition during which he had become one of...
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Full text of "The siege of the South pole; the story of Antarctic ...  View of the Antarctic Continent from an Ice Island on February 14, 1840. ..... the meridian of 46 W. in the Atlantic and 134 0 E. on the other side of the globe. .... He had reached the farthest south yet attained, though still nine degrees north of the ..... From Gonneville Land Bouvet proposed to take ad- vantage of the prevailing...
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Second voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia  See also: First voyage of James Cook and Third voyage of James Cook. The second voyage of James Cook 17721775, commissioned by the British government with ... 17 January 1773, Resolution was the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle ... and predicted that an Antarctic land would be found beyond the ice barrier.
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Matthew Flinders - davidreilly.com  Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) was born in Lincolnshire in England. ... He met George Bass, a ship's doctor, when they were both sailing to Australia on the Reliance. ... that he could prove that Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) was an island. ... In 1798, Bass and Flinders sailed the Norfolk through Bass Strait and round Van...
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Charles Wilkes Antarctic Explorer - Antarctic Guide  Wilkes had been ordered to sail south from Tasmania as far as he could, ... but irascible and largely inexperienced 40-year-old lieutenant Charles Wilkes. ... Ex Ex's first Antarctic venture, but the relationship between Wilkes and his scientists ... the chance to stay in Australia and meet the ship in New Zealand in March 1840,...
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Captain James Cook > 225 Years Ago: January - March 1773  Cook would not allow any fire in the Gally, or anywhere else but at proper ... On 17th January, "we cross'd the Antarctic Circle for at Noon we were by ... Navigator ever penetrated, before the British nation, & where few or none will ever penetrate. ... deal of Sea Weed & some Divers (Birds which are never seen far from Land)...
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John Davis  First Person to Set Foot in Antarctica - American Profile  Sep 29, 2002 ... The first recorded modern person to set foot on the Antarctic continent was John Davis, a seal hunter out of New Haven, who made a landfall in...
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James Clark Ross: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com  Sir James Clark Ross (April 15, 1800 - April 3, 1862) was a British explorer and naval officer who went on missions to both the Arctic and the continent of Antarctica, doing magnetic surveys. ... Ross charted much of the coastline and in 1841 discovered the Ross Sea, the Victoria Land area of Antarctica, Mount Erebus (a...
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Matthew Flinders - Wikipedia  Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774  19 July 1814) was an English navigator and ... Not long after their arrival in Port Jackson, Bass and Flinders made two ... the largest island in Bass Strait would later be named Flinders Island. .... and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803 in His Majesty's ship the...