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200 years of exploring Antarctica – the world's coldest, most forbidding and most peaceful continent

  • Written by Dan Morgan, Associate Dean and Principal Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Aerial view of a glacier in the Antarctic peninsula region.Getty Images/Mario Tama

Antarctica is the remotest part of the world, but it is a hub of scientific discovery, international diplomacy and environmental change. It was officially discovered 200 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1820, when members of a Russian expedition sighted land in what is now...

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