5th of February
Historical Antarctic Pictures and Events
1821 - Russian Gottleib von Bellingshausen with the ships Vostok and Mirny meet eight American and British sealing vessels and American sealer Nathaniel Palmer at the South Shetland Islands. Palmer rang his ships bell and was astonished to hear it answered in the fog
1845 - The 360 ton barque Pagoda commanded by Lieutenant Thomas Moore sailed in the Southern Hemisphere south of Lat 60°S in the Indian Ocean to make magnetic observations in high latitudes. The first ice was met with in lat. 53º 30' S, on January 25,1845. On February 5 the Antarctic Circle was crossed in long. 30º 45' E. The most southerly latitude attained on this voyage was 67º 50', in long. 39º41' E. This was the last expedition to visit the Antarctic regions in a ship propelled by sails alone.
1911 - Sketches of emperor penguins, sea-ice and the "Great Ice Barrier", now known as the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Crozier, Ross Island by Edward Wilson "Uncle Bill" with Scott.
