List of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica.

Pre-1800s

• 600 BC – 300 BC Greek Philosophers theorize Spherical Earth with the antipodes North and South Polar regions.
• 150 AD Ptolemy published Geographia, which notes Terra Australis Incognita
• 1487 Bartolomeu Dias first to sail around Cape of Good Hope crosses (40° S)
• 1497 Vasco da Gama sails to White River, South Africa
• 1522 Ferdinand Magellan - first circumnavigation discovers Strait of Magellan
• 1578 Francis Drake discovers Drake Passage
• 1599 Dirk Gerritsz - potentially sails to (64° S)
• 1603 Gabriel de Castilla – potentially sails to (64° S)
• 1642 - 1643 Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand and Tasmania (44° S)
• 1698 - 1699 Edmond Halley sails to (52° S)
• 1720 Captain George Shelvocke – sails to (61° 30’S)
• 1739 Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier – discovers Bouvet Island ()
• 1771 James Cook – HM Bark Endeavour expedition
• 1771 – 1772 First French Antarctic Expedition - led by Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec discovers Kerguelen Islands ()
• 1775 James Cook – sails HMS Resolution crossing Antarctic Circle to (71° 10’S)

1800s

• 1819 William Smith discovers South Shetland Islands ()
• 1819 San Telmo wrecks in the Drake Passage
• 1819 - 1821 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen – on January 27, 1820, discovers Antarctica mainland at Princess Martha Coast ()
• 1820 Edward Bransfield & William Smith – on January 30, 1820, sight Trinity Peninsula ()
• 1820 Nathaniel Palmer sights Antarctica on November 17, 1820
• 1821 John Davis (sealer) – on February 7, 1821 disputed claim of setting foot on Antarctica at Hughes Bay ()
• 1823 – 1824 James Weddell – on February 20, 1823 reaches ()
• 1830 – 1832 Southern Ocean Expedition – sight Enderby Land () and Adelaide Island ()
• 1837 – 1840 Second French Antarctic Expedition – led by Jules Dumont d'Urville discovers Adelie Land (66° S)
• 1838 - 1839 John Balleny discovers Balleny Islands ()
• 1838 - 1842 United States Exploring Expedition – led by Charles Wilkes to Antarctic Peninsula () and eastern Antarctica
• 1839 - 1843 James Clark Ross discovered the Ross Ice Shelf, Ross Sea, Mount Erebus, Mount Terror and Victoria Land
• 1892 – 1893 Dundee Whaling Expedition discover Dundee Island ()
• 1893 - 1895 Henryk Bull – set foot on Antarctica at Cape Adare
• 1897 – 1899 Belgian Antarctic Expedition – led by Adrien de Gerlache
• 1898 – 1900 Carsten Borchgrevink – sails to Cape Adare and winters on Antarctica

1900s

• 1901 – 1904 Discovery Expedition - led by Robert Falcon Scott, on December 30, 1903, Ernest Shackleton reached (82° 17’S)
• 1901 – 1903 First German Antarctica Expedition - led by Erich von Drygalski
• 1901 – 1904 Swedish Antarctic Expedition – led by Otto Nordenskiöld
• 1902 – 1904 Scottish National Antarctic Expedition – led by William Speirs Bruce
• 1903 – 1905 Third French Antarctic Expedition – led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot
• 1907 - 1909 Nimrod Expedition – On January 16, 1909, Ernest Shackleton reached the South Magnetic Pole (88° 23’S)
• 1908 - 1910 Fourth French Antarctic Expedition – led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot
• 1910 – 1912 Roald Amundsen - On December 14, 1911, reached the South Pole (90° S)
• 1910 – 1913 Terra Nova Expedition - On January 17, 1912, Robert Falcon Scott, reached the South Pole (90° S)
• 1911 – 1913 Second German Antarctic Expedition - led by Wilhelm Filchner
• 1911 – 1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition – led by Douglas Mawson
• 1914 – 1916 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition – led by Ernest Shackleton
• 1914 – 1917 Ross Sea Party – led by A.L.A. Mackintosh
• 1921 – 1922 Shackleton-Rowett Expedition – led by Ernest Shackleton
• 1929 – 1931 British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition
• 1928 – 1930 Richard Evelyn Byrd - First expedition
• 1931 H Halvorsen - discovered Princess Astrid Coast
• 1931 Carstens Borchgrevink - discovered Kronprins Olav Kyst
• 1931 Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen - flew over Antarctica
• 1933 – 1935 Richard Evelyn Byrd - Second expedition
• 1933 – 1939 Lincoln Ellsworth – Aircraft expedition
• 1934 – 1937 British Graham Land Expedition
• 1936 Lars Christensen - dropped Norwegian flag over Princess Harald Coast
• 1938 Third German Antarctic Expedition - led by Alfred Ritscher
• 1939 – 1941 United States Antarctic Service Expedition – led by Richard Evelyn Byrd
• 1943 – 1945 Operation Tabarin - led by Lieutenant James Marr
• 1946 – 1946 Operation Highjump – led by Richard Evelyn Byrd
• 1947 – 1948 Operation Windmill – led by Commander Gerald Ketchum
• 1947 – 1946 Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition – led by Finn Ronne
• 1949 – 1952 Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition – led by John Giaever
• 1956 – 1958 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition – led by Vivian Fuchs
• 1955 – 1956 Operation Deep Freeze - led by Richard Evelyn Byrd
• 1955 — 1957 1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Mikhail Somov
• 1956 Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station established
• 1956 — 1958 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Aleksei Treshnikov
• 1957 – 1958 International Geophysical Year
• 1957 Scott Base established
• 1957 - 1958 Luncke Expedition
• 1957 — 1959 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Yevgeny Tolstikov
• 1958 — 1960 4th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Aleksandr Dralkin
• 1959 — 1961 5th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Yevgeny Korotkevich
• 1960 South African National Antarctic Expedition
• 1960 — 1962 6th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.Driatsky
• 1961 — 1963 7th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Aleksandr Dralkin
• 1962 — 1962 Vostok traverse - led by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE)
• 1962 — 1964 8th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Mikhail Somov
• 1963 — 1965 9th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Mikhail Somov
• 1964 — 1966 10th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by M.Ostrekin, I.Petrov
• 1965 — 1967 11th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by D.Maksutov, Leonid Dubrovin
• 1966 — 1968 12th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Pavel Senko and Vladislav Gerbovich
• 1967 — 1969 13th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Aleksei Treshnikov
• 1968 — 1970 14th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by D.Maksutov, Ernst Krenkel
• 1969 — 1971 15th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Pavel Senko and Vladislav Gerbovich
• 1970 — 1972 16th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by I.Petrov and Yury Tarbeyev
• 1971 — 1973 17th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Yevgeny Korotkevich, V.Averyanov
• 1972 — 1974 18th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Pavel Senko
• 1973 — 1975 19th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by D.Maksutov, V.Ignatov
• 1974 — 1976 20th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.Serdyukov, N.Kornilov
• 1975 — 1977 21st Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by O.Sedov, G.Bardin
• 1976 — 1978 22nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by N.Tyabin, Leonid Dubrovin
• 1977 — 1979 23rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.Serdyukov, O.Sedov
• 1978 — 1980 24th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by A.Artemyev, O.Sedov
• 1979 Air New Zealand Flight 901 – airplane crash
• 1979 — 1980 25th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by N.Kornilov, N.Tyabin
• 1980 — 1982 26th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.Serdyukov, V.Shamontyev
• 1981 — 1983 27th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by D.Maksutov, R.Galkin
• 1982 Falkland Islands War
• 1982 — 1984 28th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by N.Kornilov, A.Artemyev
• 1983 — 1985 29th Soviet Antarctic Expedition - led by N.Tyabin, L.Bulatov
• 1984 — 1986 30th Soviet Antarctic Expedition - led by D.Maksutov, R.Galkin
• 1985 — 1987 31st Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by N.Tyabin, V.Dubovtsev
• 1986 — 1988 32nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.Klokov, V.Vovk
• 1987 Iceberg B-9 calves and carries away Little Americas I - III
• 1987 — 1989 33rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by N.A.Kornilov, Yu.A.Khabarov
• 1988 — 1990 34th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by S.M.Pryamikov, L.V.Bulatov
• 1989 — 1991 35th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.M.Piguzov
• 1991 — 1992 36th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Lev Savatyugin
• 1996 Lake Vostok discovered

2000s

• 2004 – 2005 Sir Ranulph Fiennes' "Invesco Perpetual Trans-Antarctica Challenge"
• Tangra 2004/05 Survey

Agreements

• 1959 Antarctic Treaty System
• 1964 Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora
• 1978 Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals
• 1982 Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
• 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities
• 1998 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty

See also

• Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
• History of Antarctica
• List of research stations in Antarctica

References

• Savatyugin, L.M., Preobrazhenskaya, M.A. Russian Exploration of Antarctica (Russian: Российские исследования в Антарктике), published by Gidrometeoizdat, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russian Federation (Roshydromet), in 3 volumes (vol.1:1st to 20th SAE;vol.2:21st to 30th SAE; vol.3:31st SAE to 40th RAE), Saint Petersburg, 1999, ISBN 5286012655
• Soviet Antarctic Expedition : information bulletin., Amsterdam : Elsevier Pub. Co. ; New York : American Elsevier Pub. Co., 1964-, ISSN: 0038-5271

Further reading

• Headland, Robert K. (1990). Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521309034
• Landis, Marilyn J. (2003). Antarctica: Exploring the Extreme: 400 Years of Adventure. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 1556524803

External links

• Index to Antarctic Expeditions - at the Scott Polar Research Institute's website
• Antarctic Expeditions - information about some of them from the British Antarctic Survey
• Chronologies and Timelines of Antarctic Exploration

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Lista de expediciones antárticas