1832
Circumnavigation
Charts new Antarctic coastline and by the end of April becomes one of the earliest navigators to circumnavigate Antarctic waters after Cook and Bellingshausen
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Charts new Antarctic coastline and by the end of April becomes one of the earliest navigators to circumnavigate Antarctic waters after Cook and Bellingshausen
Commands the Antarctic expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with Francis Crozier as second-in-command, and begins charting much of the coastline of the continent
Joins Scott's Discovery Expedition, his first Antarctic expedition
The Discovery Expedition reports King Edward VII Land, the Polar Plateau, the Dry Valleys, Cape Crozier's emperor penguin colony and extensive coastal and mountain surveys
During the Discovery Expedition a leaf fossil discovered by Ferrar helps establish Antarctica's relation to the Gondwana super-continent
Publishes Discovery Expedition results including fossil evidence that helps link Antarctica with the Gondwana super-continent
Launches his own Antarctic expedition, later crossing the Polar Plateau to within 97 miles of the South Pole and taking motion pictures in Antarctica
Provenance
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