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Discovery of Winter Quarters Bay

Great Britain · Exploration / Exploration and Discovery. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1902Date range
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1902

Robert Falcon Scott8 February 1902

Winter Quarters Bay · Exploration / Exploration and Discovery

The Discovery enters McMurdo Sound and later that day anchors in a spot near its southern limit which was afterwards christened Winter Quarters Bay

Names involved

Robert Falcon Scott

Provenance

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