This List of Antarctic expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized as early as the writings of Ptolemy in the first century AD, the South Pole was not reached until 1911.
| Terra Australis | |
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Terra Australis is the large continent on the bottom of this 1570 map. |
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