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James Cook () English navigator, explorer, and hydrographer receiving ritual tribute from Sandwich Islanders, , during his third Pacific voyage..

37 Photographs Documenting the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration began at the end of the 1800s when Antarctica became the focus of international efforts for scientific and geographic exploration.

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17 major explorations were launched by ten different countries.

As a precursor to the Historic age, British explorer James Cook, in the late 1770s, explored the southern regions of the world in search of a large continent called Terra Australis.

He was unable to reach what is now Antarctica because of the amount of ice in the waters, but he hypothesized that there must be a land mass of origin. The exploration of the South Pole was put on hiatus.

Between 1819 and 1843 interest was revived with the goal of reaching Antarctica proper.

This resurgence in exploratory activity did not bring man to set foot on the Antarctic continent but significant contributions were made. Dumont D’Urville first sighted a rocky land formation. Charles Wilkes d