Fourth Soviet Antarctic Expedition was an expedition in Antarctica led by Aleksandr Gavrilovich Dralkin. According to Soviet News: The expedition ... made...
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Antarctic Expedition 1958–1960 – 4th Soviet Antarctic Expedition – led by Aleksandr Dralkin 1959– 1960 – New Zealand Alpine Club Antarctic Expedition...
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Antarctic expeditions by the Soviet Union is a list of expeditions from the Soviet Union to Antarctica. Soviet Antarctic Expedition List of Antarctic...
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Richard E. Byrd (redirect from Byrd Antarctic Expedition)
served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. He is also known...
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First Russian Antarctic Expedition took place in 1819–1821 under the direction of Fabian Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. The expedition aimed to reach...
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History of Antarctica (redirect from Antarctic Exploration)
The first Russian Antarctic Expedition remained largely forgotten until 10 February 1949, when Lev Berg, president of the Soviet Geographical Society...
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Southern Ocean (redirect from Antarctic Ocean)
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition discovered and mapped the last unknown coastline in the world and was the first Antarctic expedition to ever include...
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Antarctica (redirect from Antarctic meteorites)
Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic...
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Ernest Shackleton (category Antarctic expedition deaths)
1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of...
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (redirect from Bellingshausen expedition)
January 1820 (New Style). On 27 January, the expedition discovered the Antarctic mainland approaching the Antarctic coast at a point with coordinates 69º21'28"S...
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Malyshev Factory (category Manufacturing companies of the Soviet Union)
1958-1958 Kharkovchanka, special purpose vehicle for Antarctica (4th Soviet Antarctic Expedition) Notable diesel engines from Kharkov include the 1472 kW 2D100...
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Timeline of women in Antarctica (redirect from Timeline of Antarctic women)
women scientists to do research in the Antarctic region, joining an Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition trip to Macquarie Island in December...
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Frederick Cook (category Belgian Antarctic Expedition)
Cook was the surgeon on Robert Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891–1892, and on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899. He contributed to saving the...
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MV Xue Long (section Antarctic operations)
maintain a scientific presence in the Antarctic. Although used primarily to support China's annual expeditions to Antarctica, Xue Long has made four voyages...
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subsequent expeditions, and was forced to rely on private backers instead. Benjamin Morrell reported that, in March 1823, while on a voyage to the Antarctic and...
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icebreakers are also used to support scientific research in the Arctic and Antarctic. In addition to icebreaking capability, the ships need to have reasonably...
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Robert Peary (redirect from Peary North Pole expedition)
American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long...
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Davis Sea (category Antarctic region)
and the Gillies Islands. The sea was discovered by the Australian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914) from the Aurora. It was named by Sir Douglas Mawson for...
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and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE). They were also rejected. When a privately funded British Antarctic Expedition was proposed in...
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He is known for his Arctic explorations and for his mountaineering expeditions, particularly to Mount Saint Elias and K2. He also served as an Italian...
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Alexander Kolchak (category Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 4th class)
sent on a cartographic expedition to the Bering Strait and Cape Dezhnev. Kolchak commanded the Vaigach during this expedition and later worked at the...
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1860 – 13 March 1938) was an English Arctic explorer remembered for his expedition to Franz Josef Land, when he located the missing Norwegian explorer Fridtjof...
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Exploration (redirect from Mountaineering expedition)
Colorado, 2006. Joyner, Christopher C. Governing the Frozen Commons: The Antarctic Regime and Environmental Protection. Columbia: University of South Carolina...
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George J. Dufek (section Antarctic experience)
Richard E. Byrd's third expedition to Antarctica, which was officially named the United States Antarctic Service Expedition, where he served as navigator...
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mention occurs in 1612, when he was chief pilot on Captain James Hall's 4th expedition to Greenland. Hall's three earlier explorations had been underwritten...
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Sites and Monuments are protected under the Antarctic Treaty System, as one of three classes of Antarctic Protected Areas. The criteria for listing a...
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Jan Nagórski (category Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 4th class)
information obtained proved valuable during his later Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Among other pioneers of Arctic aviation to take advantage of Nagórski's...
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Pytheas (category 4th-century BC Greek people)
Celts and the Germans appear to have helped him, which suggests that the expedition was put forward as purely scientific. In any case all voyages required...
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Raymond Priestley (category Terra Nova expedition)
in 1914. Priestley returned to the Antarctic as a member of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), after being recruited by...
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Livingston Island (category Bulgaria and the Antarctic)
500) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula...
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