James Cook
He was a British Navy Officer and two-time Antarctic Explorer.
George Washington was an explorer. In fact, George Washington DeLong was an Antarctic explorer. George Washington Jr. was a sailor and an Antarctic explorer as well.
James Cook
The explorer is Ann Bancroft.
Peary is not an Antarctic explorer: he focused on the Arctic.
Antarctic Explorer
Mawson was Australia's most famous explorer
English explorer James Cook first crossed the Antarctic Circle in 1773 during his second voyage to the South Pacific. Cook's expedition marked the first documented crossing of the Antarctic Circle by a European explorer.
oates and evans
The Antarctic sea is not named after an explorer, but after the continent it is near to; also Antarctica was not named after anyone, but was named because of where it was. It is on the opposite side of the Arctic, so they combined anti- and Arctic( which means cold,that is how the Arctic got its name) and created Antarctic.
It's hard to say who the most famous Antarctic explorer was. A few of them are very famous. One of the most famous is Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Others are Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Falcon Scott.
Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb was the first to sight the Antarctic continent, in 1820. He did not land there, and it was almost another century before a landing was made.