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To give him his proper name, which is Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen. He became the first person to actually to actually see the continent of Antarctica, on 27th January 1820, beating the UK's Edward Bransfield (30th January 1820), and America's Nathaniel Palmer (17th November 1820).

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