A Brief History of Antarctic Exploration and Discovery
1932 – 33
The second International Polar Year was held.
1935 – 36
The American pilot, Lincoln Ellsworth, made the first flight across the Antarctic continent from the peninsula to the Bay of Whales.
1935 – 37
The Norwegian, Caroline Mikkelson, became the first woman to set foot on the continent. By 1993 there were still nations not allowing women to participate in their polar programmes within Antarctica.
1946 – 47
Edward Bingham and Kenneth Pierce-Butler establish the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (forerunner to the British Antarctic Survey).
1947 – 48
Finn Ronne led an expedition to Marguerite Bay. During this expedition, Ronne showed that the Antarctic Peninsula was connected to the rest of Antarctica
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