List of Antarctic expeditions

This list of Antarctic expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions and voyages, where it came to Antarctica or in which Antarctica was involved prominently. Not included are cruises that crossed the Antarctic Convergence, but discovered no land.

Until the 19th century

19th century

20th century

21st Century

1675 England 1739 Bouvet Island 1771 1772 1775 1819 William Smith (mariner) 1821 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen 1820 Edward Bransfield 1823 1824 James Weddell 1830 1832 John Biscoe Grahamland Adelaide Island 1837 1840 France 1838 1839 Balleny Islands 1842 United States Exploring Expedition Charles Wilkes Antarctic Peninsula 1843 Ross Sea Mount Erebus Mount Terror (Antarctica) Victoria Land 1892 1893 Dundee Whaling Expedition Dundee Island Weddell Sea 1895 Henrik Johan Bull 1897 1899 Belgian Antarctic Expedition Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration 1898 Southern-Cross-Expedition 1901 1904 1903 Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1902 Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1905 Jean-Baptiste Charcot 1907 1909 Ernest Shackleton 1908 1910 Charcot Island 1912 Shirase Nobu 1913 1911 Wilhelm Filchner 1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition Australia Douglas Mawson 1916 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1917 Ross Sea Party 1920 1922 1921 1928 1930 1929 1931 Mac-Robertson-Land New Zealand Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen 1933 1935 1939 Lincoln Ellsworth 1934 1937 1936 Lars Christensen Flag of Norway 1938 Alfred Ritscher 1941 1943 1945 Operation Tabarin 1946 1947 Chile 1948 Operation Windmill Gerald Ketchum Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition 1949 1952 Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1955 1956 1957 Mikhail Somov 1958 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 Vostok traverse Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 Ranulph Fiennes 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 People's Republic of Bulgaria 1990 1991 1992 1995 1996 2004 2005 2006 2007
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