List of Antarctic Expeditions - 20th Century

20th Century

• 1901–1904 Discovery Expedition – led by Robert Falcon Scott, on 30 December 1903, reached (82° 17′S)
• 1901–1903 Gauss expedition (or First German Antarctic Expedition) – led by Erich von Drygalski
• 1901–1903 Swedish Antarctic Expedition – led by Otto Nordenskjöld with captain Carl Anton Larsen
• 1902–1904 Scottish National Antarctic Expedition – led by William Speirs Bruce
• 1903–1905 Third French Antarctic Expedition – led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot
• 1907–1909 Nimrod Expedition – On 9 January 1909, Ernest Shackleton reached 88° 23 ′S (Farthest South), and on 16 January 1909, Professor Edgeworth David reached the South Magnetic Pole at (72°25′S 155°16′E / 72.417°S 155.267°E / -72.417; 155.267) (mean position)
• 1908–1910 Fourth French Antarctic Expedition – led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot
• 1910–1912 Japanese Antarctic Expedition – led by Nobu Shirase
• 1910–1912 Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition – On 14 December 1911, reached the South Pole (90° S)
• 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition – On 17 January 1912, Robert Falcon Scott, reached the South Pole (90° S)
• 1911–1913 Second German Antarctic Expedition – led by Wilhelm Filchner
• 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition – led by Douglas Mawson
• 1914–1916 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition – led by Ernest Shackleton
• 1914–1917 Ross Sea Party – led by Aeneas Mackintosh
• 1920–1922 British Expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope
• 1921–1922 Shackleton-Rowett Expedition – led by Ernest Shackleton – the last expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
• 1929–1931 British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) – led by Douglas Mawson
• 1928–1930 Richard Evelyn Byrd – First expedition
• 1931 H. Halvorsen – discovered Princess Astrid Coast
• 1931 Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen – flew over Antarctica, discovered Kronprins Olav Kyst
• 1933–1935 Richard Evelyn Byrd – Second expedition
• 1933–1939 Lincoln Ellsworth – Aircraft expedition
• 1934–1937 British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) – led by John Riddoch Rymill
• 1936 Lars Christensen – dropped Norwegian flag over Prince Harald Coast
• 1938 Third German Antarctic Expedition (New Swabia, or Neuschwabenland, claimed for Nazi Germany) – led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher
• 1939–1941 United States Antarctic Service Expedition – led by Richard Evelyn Byrd
• 1943–1945 Operation Tabarin – led by Lieutenant James Marr
• 1946–1946 Operation Highjump – led by Richard Evelyn Byrd
• 1947–First Chilean Antarctic Expedition
• 1947–1948 Operation Windmill – led by Commander Gerald Ketchum
• 1947–1946 Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition – led by Finn Ronne
• 1949–1950 Adelie-Land, Ship Commandant Charcot – led by Michel Barre
• 1949–1952 Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition – led by John Giaever
• 1954 Mawson Station established
• 1955–1956 Operation Deep Freeze – led by Richard Evelyn Byrd
• 1955-1957 Falkland island Dependency Arial Survey led by P G Mott
• 1955–1957 1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Mikhail Somov
• 1956 Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station established
• 1956–1958 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition – led by Vivian Fuchs
• 1956–1958 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Aleksei Treshnikov
• 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year
• 1957–1958 New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
• 1957 Scott Base established
• 1957–1958 Luncke Expedition
• 1957–1959 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Yevgeny Tolstikov
• 1958–1959 New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
• 1958–1960 4th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Aleksandr Dralkin
• 1959–1961 5th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Yevgeny Korotkevich
• 1960 South African National Antarctic Expedition
• 1960–1962 6th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.Driatsky
• 1961–1963 7th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Aleksandr Dralkin
• 1962–1962 Vostok traverse – led by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE)
• 1962–1964 8th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Mikhail Somov
• 1963–1965 9th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Mikhail Somov
• 1964–1966 10th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by M.Ostrekin, I.Petrov
• 1965–1967 11th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by D.Maksutov, Leonid Dubrovin
• 1965–1965 Operación 90 - Terrestrial Argentine Expedition to the South Pole Led by Coronel D. Jorge Leal.
• 1966–1968 12th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Pavel Senko and Vladislav Gerbovich
• 1967–1969 13th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Aleksei Treshnikov
• 1968–1970 14th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by D.Maksutov, Ernst Krenkel
• 1969–1970 New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
• 1969–1971 15th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Pavel Senko and Vladislav Gerbovich
• 1970–1972 16th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by I.Petrov and Yury Tarbeyev
• 1971–1973 17th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Yevgeny Korotkevich, V. Averyanov
• 1972–1974 18th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Pavel Senko
• 1973–1975 19th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by D.Maksutov, V. Ignatov
• 1974–1976 20th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.Serdyukov, N. Kornilov
• 1975–1977 21st Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by O.Sedov, G. Bardin
• 1976–1978 22nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by N.Tyabin, Leonid Dubrovin
• 1977–1979 23rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.Serdyukov, O. Sedov
• 1978–1980 24th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by A.Artemyev, O. Sedov
• 1979 Air New Zealand Flight 901 – airplane crash
• 1979–1980 25th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by N.Kornilov, N. Tyabin
• 1980–1981 Transglobe Expedition – led by Ranulph Fiennes
• 1980–1982 26th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.Serdyukov, V. Shamontyev
• 1981–1983 27th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by D.Maksutov, R. Galkin
• 1981-1982 First Indian Expedition to Antarctica - led by Dr. Sayed Zahoor Qasim
• 1982 Falkland Islands War
• 1982-1983 Second Indian Expedition to Antarctica - led by V. K. Raina
• 1982–1984 28th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by N.Kornilov, A. Artemyev
• 1983–1985 29th Soviet Antarctic Expedition – led by N.Tyabin, L. Bulatov
• 1983–1985 Third Indian Expedition to Antarctica - led by Dr Harsh K. Gupta
• 1984–1987 In the Footsteps of Scott – led by Robert Swan
• 1984–1985 1st Uruguayan Antarctic Expedition - Antarkos I Led by Lt. Col. Omar Porciúncula
• 1984–1986 30th Soviet Antarctic Expedition – led by D.Maksutov, R. Galkin
• 1985–1987 31st Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by N. Tyabin, V. Dubovtsev
• 1986–1988 32nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.Klokov, V.Vovk
• 1987 Iceberg B-9 calves and carries away Little Americas I – III
• 1987–1989 33rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by N.A.Kornilov, Yu.A.Khabarov
• 1987–1988 First Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition — St. Kliment Ohridski Base established
• 1988–1990 34th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by S.M.Pryamikov, L.V.Bulatov
• 1989–1991 35th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by V.M.Piguzov
• 1991–1992 36th Soviet Antarctic Expedition — led by Lev Savatyugin
• 1992–1993 Antarctic Environmental Research Expedition — led by Kenji Yoshikawa
• 1996 Lake Vostok discovered