Farthest South refers to the most southerly latitudes reached by explorers before the first successful expedition to the South Pole in 1911. Significant...
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Pole of inaccessibility (redirect from Farthest point inland)
In geography, a pole of inaccessibility is the farthest (or most difficult to reach) location in a given landmass, sea, or other topographical feature...
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List of Antarctic expeditions (redirect from South pole expedition)
1773 and December 1773. On 30 January 1774 he reaches 71° 10′ S, his Farthest South, coming within about 120 kilometres (75 mi) of the Antarctic mainland...
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southern Albania in Southeastern Europe), and can extend west to Italy's farthest south-eastern coasts. Jordan is climatically and economically part of the...
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the first sledge journey on the Barrier surface, during which a new Farthest South record latitude was established at 78° 50′S. On its return to Britain...
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Antarctica (redirect from South frigid zone)
entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica...
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Southern Ocean (redirect from South polar ocean)
was his farthest south. A determined effort on the part of the French naval officer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier to discover the "South Land"...
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exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922 Arctic exploration Farthest South History of Antarctica List of Antarctic expeditions List of polar explorers...
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The Farthest Shore is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published by Atheneum in 1972. It is the third book in the series...
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Farthest North describes the most northerly latitude reached by explorers, before the first successful expedition to the North Pole rendered the expression...
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The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite...
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Ernest Shackleton (category South Pole)
established a new record Farthest South latitude of 88°23′ S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles or 180 kilometres) from the South Pole, the largest...
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was his farthest south. A determined effort on the part of the French naval officer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier to discover the "South Land"...
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East longitude. Farthest north point: 42° 37' 58,88" North latitude. Farthest south point: 42° 18' 0,07" North latitude. Highest point: Comaloformo (3030...
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U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and California, and then Mexico farthest south. The region consists of one long continuous mountain range formed over...
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Isla del Meridiano (the "Meridian Island"), is the second-smallest and farthest south and west of the Canary Islands (an autonomous community of Spain), in...
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The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under...
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The south magnetic pole, also known as the magnetic south pole, is the point on Earth's Southern Hemisphere where the geomagnetic field lines are directed...
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Discovery Expedition (category South Pole)
route) on which the South Pole is located. The expedition tried to reach the South Pole travelling as far as the Farthest South mark at a reported 82°17′S...
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had reached 87° S. On 8 December the Norwegians passed Shackleton's Farthest South record of 88° 23′. As they neared the pole, they looked for any break...
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Grosso, Goiás, Amazonas and Bahia. Finds in Patagonia extend to the farthest south of the region, including Tierra del Fuego. In Uruguay, Fishtail points...
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southwest coast of King William Island. The wreck was discovered 92 km (57 mi) south of the location where the ship was reported abandoned, and some 50 km (31 mi)...
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Nimrod Expedition (category South Pole)
was to be first to reach the South Pole. This was not attained, but the expedition's southern march reached a Farthest South latitude of 88° 23' S, just...
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descend from the east side of the mountain. The Ridge of Wonders is farthest south and ends at an area away from the mountain called The Island. Battlement...
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Polar explorers. Fram was the wooden ship to have sailed farthest north (85°57'N) and farthest south (78°41'S), and one of the strongest wooden ships ever...
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Philatelic Introduction". South Pole. Archived from the original on 20 May 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2018. "The Byrd Memorial at McMurdo". South Pole Station. Archived...
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October 2020. Topas (2 October 2020). "Erik the Red's Land - The Norse in South Greenland". www.greenlandbytopas.com. Retrieved 12 April 2024. Marc Carlson...
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off Admiral Charles de Durand-Linois at the Battle of Pulo Aura in the South China Sea on 14 February 1804. He was present at the Battle of Trafalgar...
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a possible trade route to Asia, but were blocked by North, Central, and South America, by ice, or by rough waters (e.g. Tierra del Fuego). An ice-bound...
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previous month) and four days later, at 71°10' S, 106°54' W, achieved his farthest south." "We all observed, that we had not the sight of one fish of any kind...
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