7th of February
Historical
Antarctic Pictures and Events
Robert Falcon Scott, British Antarctic Expedition (South Pole Expedition) on the ship Terra Nova, 1910 - 1913.
1911 - Expedition members in Wolsey underwear (with reindeer skin sleeping bags), one of a series of pictures for sponsors taken by Herbert Ponting while on a depot-laying sledge journey.
1821 - First claimed landing on Antarctica by men from the American sealer Cecilia under Captain John Davis, at Hughes Bay at the northern end of the Peninsula.
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"I think this Southern Land to be a Continent".
It is not widely accepted, the first undisputed landing was on the 24th of January 1895.