Man set foot on Antarctica for the first time

23
January 2020

The first people to set foot on the sixth continent were members a Norwegian expedition: Captain of the Antarctic Leonard Kristensen and his fellow Norwegian Carsten Borchgrevink, natural science teacher, the ship’s passenger. He was the one to persuade the Captain to sail to the shore in a lifeboat. Moreover, he collected mineral samples, saw and described Antarctic lichen and spotted a jellyfish in the water. The crew observed a wonderful phenomenon of the aurora. Carsten Borchgrevink returned to the Antarctic as leader of a large expedition on the Southern Cross (1898 – 1900).

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