Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s by T. H. Baughman

Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s

T. H. Baughman

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nonfiction history travel adventurous medium-paced
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Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being ...

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