26th of November
Historical
Antarctic Pictures and Events
Wilhelm Filchner, Second German Antarctic Expedition on the ship Deutschland, 1911-13.
1911 - A chief aim of this expedition was to establish if there were two Antarctic landmasses divided by a channel between the Weddell and Ross Seas as theorized by Albrecht Penck of the University of Berlin - there aren't.
Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic Expedition on the ship Nimrod, 1907- 1909.
1908 - Ernest Shackleton passes the previous farthest south point at 82°17?S reached by Robert Scott (also with Shackleton) in 1902.