The Spaniard Gabriel de Castilla, who claimed having sighted "snow-covered mountains" beyond the 64° S in 1603, is recognized as the first explorer that discovered the continent of Antarctica, although he was ignored in his time.
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.
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.
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.
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The explorer is Ann Bancroft.
Peary is not an Antarctic explorer: he focused on the Arctic.
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.
No, Tom Crean was not the first Irishman to go to the Antarctic. The first Irishman to reach the Antarctic was Edward Bransfield, who led an expedition in 1820. Tom Crean was a notable explorer who participated in several expeditions to Antarctica in the early 20th century.
The first explorer to reach Antarctica was Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a Russian naval officer and explorer. He, along with Mikhail Lazarev, led an expedition that sighted the Antarctic mainland on January 27, 1820. Their voyage was significant in mapping the previously uncharted southern continent. Bellingshausen's expedition is often credited with being the first to discover the Antarctic landmass.
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