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Early explorers took both dogs and ponies to Antarctica.
The early explorers come from Italy, Spain, and France.
All polar explorers between about 1899 and 1922 -- the Heroic age of Antarctic Exploration -- traveled to Antarctica by sailing ship.
Early explorers of Antarctica used sleeping bags made of deer skin.
Early 20th Century explorers found the southone there.
Ships were - and still are - used to travel to the continent.
Early explorers between 1898 and 1922 brought dogs to Antarctica. The practice is now forbidden.
Early European explorers were trying to find new trade routes to Asia, specifically to access spices, silk, and other valuable goods. They were also searching for new lands to claim for their countries and to spread Christianity.
Antarctica has never been founded. Early explorers in the 1700s confirmed -- found -- that there was a continent in the south polar region.
why do you think antarctica was named terra incognita*********************Terra incognita is Latin for unknown territory, which to early explorers of Antarctica, was an unknown land.
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Expedition-worthy sleeping bags in the late 1800s and early 1900s were made from deer skin.