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Edward Bransfield was an Irish-born officer in the British Royal Navy who took part in the early exploration of Antarctica. In January 1820 he commanded a voyage that charted parts of the South Shetland Islands and recorded a sighting of the mountainous coast now known as the Trinity Peninsula. His...
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Nathaniel Brown Palmer was an American sea captain, explorer, and sealer associated with the early exploration of Antarctica. While commanding the small sloop Hero in 1820, he sighted land along the Antarctic Peninsula and became one of several explorers credited with early sightings of the Antarcti...
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