Antarctic Explorers Timeline

Antarctic Expeditions of the 1930s

Year	Leader	Outcomes	Remarks
1930/31	de la Rue	Geologic research on Kerguelen	France
1930/31	Isachsen and Rüser-Larsen	Discovered Princess Ragnhild Land and Lars-Christensen Land. Flight takeoff in Crown Prince Olaf Land	Norway (Ship: Novegia)
1930-31	Halvorsen	Discovered Princess Astrid Land.	Norway (Ship: Sevilla)
1930/31	Bull	Discovered Princess Ragnhild Land	Norway (Ship: Thorshammer)
1930/31	Brunvoll	Discovered Lars Christensen Land	Norway (Ship: Seksern)
1930/31	Reider Bjerkö	Sighted Lars Christensen Land	Norway (Ship: Bouvet II)
1930/31	Sjövold	Sighted Lars Christensen Land	Norway (Ship: Bouvet III)
1930/31	Walter	Discovered land between 65 and 60° E	Norway (Ship: Thorgaut)
1930/31	Christensen	Discovered Bjerkö-Halbinsel	Norway (Ship: Thorshavn)
1930/31	Mikkelsen	Landed in Lars Christensen Land	Norway (Ship: Torlyn)
1930/31	Daehli	Discovered land between 60 and 58° E	Norway (Ship: Hilda Knudsen)
1930/31	Borchgrevink	Expedition in Enderby Land and Crown Prince Olaf Land	Norway (Ship: Antarctic)
1930/32	Gunther	Oceanographic research in Scotia Sea and in Weddell Sea	England (Ship: William Scoresby)
1931	Perot	Exploration of Crozet and Kerguelen	France (Ship: Antarès)
1931/33	John & Carey	First research in Antarctica in winter. Oceanographic studies.	England (Ship: Discovery II)
1932/33	Rüser-Larsen	Research along a sledge journey from 33° 50' E to Weddell Sea	Norway (Ships: Thorshavn & Thorshammer)
1933/34	Christensen & Mikkelsen	Flight in Lars Christensen Land. Discovery of King Leopold and Queen Astrid Land and of shelf ice in front of Marie Byrd Land at 131° W. First woman to set foot on continent (Caroline Mikkelson), wife of the captain.	Norway (Ship: Thorsfavn)
1933/34	Ellsworth	Flew over West Antarctica. Airplane wrecked on landing.	USA. (Ship: Wyatt Earp)
1933/35	Mackintosh & Nelson	Oceanographic and biological research. Examination of Scotia Sea and Prince Edward Island.	England (Ship: Discovery II)
1933/35	Byrd	Mapped Marie Byrd Land and the regions near Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered Horlick Mountains. Established Little America station	USA (Ships: Bear of Oakland & Jacob Ruppert)
1934	Evans	Exploration of Bouvet Island (no landing).	England (Ship: Milford)
1934/35	Ellsworth	Flight along east coast of northern Graham Land. Established Snow Hill base.	USA. (Ship: Wyatt Earp)
1934/35	Mikkelsen	Discovered Ingrid Christensen Land.	Norway (Ship: Thorshavn)
1934/35	Rayner & Boothby	Biological research south of Africa	England (Ship: William Scoresby)
1934/37	Rymill	Research on west coast of Graham Land. Sledge journey to the east coast and discovered King George VI Sound.	England (Ship: Penola; Aircraft: DeHavilland Fox Moth)
1935/36		Whale research	Norway (Ship: J. H. Bull)
1935/36	Ellsworth	Transpolar flight. Discovered Sentinel Mountains and Hollick-Kenyon Plateaus. Made claims of land for the USA that were never pursued	USA (Ship: Wyatt Earp)
1935/36	Rayner & Boothby	Mapped Robertson Land. Discovered Edward VII gulf. Landed in West Scoresby Bay, Kempland.	England (Ship: William Scoresby)
1935/37	Deacon & Hill	Exploration in Scotia Meer. Relief expedtion for Ellsworth in Ross Sea. Exploration of Balleny Islands.	England (Ship: Discovery II)
1936/37	Hart & Boothby	Whaling in Indian Ocean near Enderby Land.	England (Ship: William Scoresby)
1936/37	Christensen	Air photography between west shelf ice  and Enderby Land. Discovered Prince Harold Land. Sighted Princess Astrid Land.	Norway (Ships: Thorshavn & Firern)
1936/37	Bravold	Discovered west part of King Leopold and Queen Astrid Land.	Norway (Ship: Thorshammer)
1937	Thomsen	Exploration of King George Island, South Shetlands.	England (Ship: Ajax)
1937/38	Rayner & Freaker	Traveled between Bouvet and Peter I Islands. Landed on Saunders, South Sandwich Islands.	England (Ship: William Scoresby)
1937/39	Herdman & Hill	Oceanographic work. Explored Baleny Islands and landed on Bouvet.	England (Ship: Discovery II)
1938/39	Ritscher	Discovered and mapped New Schwaben Land	Germany (Ship: Schwabenland)
1938/39	Ellsworth	Flight from American Highland.	USA (Ship: Wyatt Earp); southernmost point: 72° S, 79° E
1939	de la Ripelle	Oceanographic research. Exploration of Prince Edward, Crozet, and Kerguelen.	France (Ship: Bougainville)
1939/41	Byrd Siple (W-B) Black(E-B)	Established that Alexander I. Land was an island. Discovered Thurston Island. Explored east coast of Graham Land. Claims in Marie Byrd Land and Ross Sea region. Western base was Little America, eastern was Stonington.	USA (Ships: North Star & Bear)

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Information from:

Antarctica Online (1998). Antarctic history. Online: http://www.antarcticaonline.com/antarctica/history/history.htm

Cameron, I. (1974). Antarctica: The last continent. London: Cassell & Company. pp. 243-247.

Cool Antarctica (2003). Antarctic Fact File - History. Online: http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/exploration%20and%20history.htm

Kosack, H.P., (1955). Geographische Handbücher die Antarktis, Keysersche Heidelberg: Verlagbuchhandlung. pp.261-285

South Pole.com (2003). Antarctic Explorers. Online. http://www.south-pole.com

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