Monday, January 27, 2025

First Sighting of Antarctica in 1820

 

The first sighting of Antarctica is now widely acknowledged to have taken place on the 27th or 28th of January 1820 during the voyage of two Russian ships, the Vostok  and Mirnyi  under the command of Captain Fabien (Thaddeus) Gottleib von Bellingshausen during a two year exploratory expedition around the world to discover new lands for the Russian Empire. Bellingshausen's ships were the first to have crossed the Antarctic Circle since Cook nearly 50 years earlier, they did so on the 26th of January 1820.

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