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Terra Australis Incognita is Latin for

unknown southern land

made four trips to the Arctic in the 1600s

Henry Hudson

What are three facts about Antarctica?

It was the last place on the planet that was named The exploration has been one of the last on the planet It was one of the last places to be mapped

first across the Antarctic Circle

James Cook

first to South Magnetic Pole

Ernest Shackleton

Why if you look at a map of Antarctica, north and south are not marked?

Everything toward the pole is south, and everything away from the pole is north.

What kind of people go to Antarctica?

People go to Antarctica to visit Scientist work in Antarctica

first to fly across North and South Poles

Richard Byrd

first to the South Pole

Roald Amundsen

one of the first to claim to the reach the North Pole.

Robert Peary

second to South Pole, died on the way out

Robert Scott


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