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| | Antarctic Voyages and Expeditions |
 | | Pedersen accompanied Evenson as far as 64° 23' S. Bull, a Norwegian businessman in Melbourne's mercantile business at a time when Australian scientists were cogitating an Australian Antarctic expedition, became enraptured with the idea of a voyage to the Antarctic and believed that one could be paid off by a modest whaling success. |
 | | Gerlache's party, which included physician Frederick Cook, third officer Roald Amundsen, and a staff of outstanding scientists of diverse nationalities, visited the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, discovered the Gerlache Strait, made twenty landings on various islands, described new coastline, and made the first sledging journey in Antarctica (on Brabant Island). |
 | | Drygalski, professor of geography and geophysics at the University of Berlin, led this government-funded scientific expedition to the Antarctic. |
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