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    Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the RV Belgica, it...
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    la Belgica antarctica" (Belgian Strait) (now called Gerlache Strait), which in turn was named after the expedition's stead-yacht, SY Belgica. Belgica antarctica...
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    of Belgica. Other members of the expedition included Roald Amundsen, Henryk Arctowski, Antoni Dobrowolski and Emil Racoviţă. The overloaded Belgica broke...
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    Emil Racoviță (category Belgian Antarctic Expedition)
    international team that started out on a research expedition to Antarctica, aboard the Belgica. The expedition was led by the Belgian officer Adrien de Gerlache...
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    Détroit de la Belgica is a channel/strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula. The Belgian Antarctic Expedition, under Lt. Adrien...
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    Belgian Antarctic Expedition as first mate at the age of 25 in 1897. This expedition, led by Adrien de Gerlache using the ship the RV Belgica, became the first...
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  • in 1982 1052 Belgica, an asteroid discovered in 1925 RV Belgica (1884), a vessel that undertook the Belgian Antarctic Expedition RV Belgica (A962), a research...
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    The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived...
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    countryman Fridtjof Nansen, Amundsen joined the Belgian Antarctic Expedition as mate, aboard Belgica under Adrien de Gerlache. Early in 1898 the ship became trapped...
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    Adrien de Gerlache (category Belgian Antarctic Expedition)
    reached Madeira expedition to the Greenland Sea on board the Belgica (1905) expedition to the Barents Sea and Kara Sea (1907) expedition to Greenland, Spitsbergen...
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    to the first Peary Expedition to Greenland (1892); leader of the SS Miranda Expedition (1894); surgeon on the Belgica Expedition (1897–1898), the first...
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  • steamships have been named Belgica. SS Belgica (1884), a barque-rigged ship used in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1901. SS Belgica (1894), built by The...
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    This list of Arctic expeditions is a timeline of historic Arctic exploration and explorers of the Arctic. 1472: Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst mark the...
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    Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two...
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    This list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been...
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    The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest...
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  • Belgica Guyot (65°30′S 90°30′W / 65.500°S 90.500°W / -65.500; -90.500) is an undersea tablemount named for the Belgian research ship Belgica, used...
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    The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by...
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    across the crater Carleton. It was named after the RV Belgica, a Belgian ship used for an expedition to determine the position of the South Magnetic Pole...
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    British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 after the RV Belgica, the ship of the...
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  • The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition (1921–22) was Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...
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    The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships...
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  • 1967–79, and named after the Belgica, the ship of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache. "Belgica Subglacial Highlands". Antarctic...
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    polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and...
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    The Great Northern Expedition (Russian: Великая Северная экспедиция) or Second Kamchatka Expedition (Russian: Вторая Камчатская экспедиция) was one of...
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    Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski (category Belgian Antarctic Expedition)
    initially unsuccessfully in convincing expedition commander Adrien de Gerlache to take him on, but when the Belgica had to return to Ostend for repairs and...
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  • 1959). The first Belgian expedition of scientific nature was led by Adrien de Gerlache aboard the Belgica. The expedition involved over wintering and...
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    The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by...
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    Georges Lecointe (explorer) (category Belgian Antarctic Expedition)
    officer and scientist. He was captain of the Belgica and second-in-command of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the first to overwinter in Antarctica. After...
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    in honour of RV Belgica; the ship that carried the first Belgian polar expedition to the Antarctic in 1897. Media related to Belgica metro station at...
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