The Mystery of the Earth by Marie Byrd
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· 27 Apr 2024
Antarctica, the southernmost continent in the world, with an area of approximately 14 million square kilometers, does not officially belong to any country. Although the existence of this continental mass had been assumed since ancient times, Antarctica was sighted for the first time only on January 27, 1820 by the Imperial Russian Navy officer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. The first man to set foot there was the Anglo-American John Davis, on February 7, 1821. During the 19 th century there were some other expeditions on the Antarctic coasts, such as the one guided by Captain James Clark Ross (1839-1843), who mapped a good part of ...