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Antarctica's Exploration Timeline

Antarctica discovery timeline

Antarctica Timeline from 1772 to 1775
Antarctica Timeline: 1819 and 1820
Antarctica Timeline: 1821
Antarctica Timeline from 1820 to 1890s
Antarctica Timeline: Early 1900s
Antarctica Timeline from 1912 to 1915
Antarctica Timeline: Mid 1900s
Antarctica Timeline: 1961
Antarctica Timeline: 2007-2008
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2007-2008: International Polar Year: There have been a number of major international science initiatives in Polar Regions and all have had a major influence our understanding of global processes in these important areas. These initiatives have involved an intense period of interdisciplinary research that provide a broad range of information about the polar regions. The last such initiative was the International Geophysical Year in 1957-58. It produced unprecedented exploration and discoveries in many fields of research and fundamentally changed how science was conducted in the polar regions. Since then, technological developments such as earth observation satellites, autonomous vehicles and molecular biology techniques offer enormous opportunities for a further quantum step upwards in our understanding of polar systems. An IPY in 2007-2008 also affords an opportunity to engage the upcoming generation of young Earth System scientists and to get the public to realize just how much the cold ends of the sphere we all live on really do influence us. (Adapted from www.ipy.org)

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