first person to ski in Antarctica where the Larsen Ice Shelf was named after him. 1892–1893 – Dundee Whaling Expedition discover Dundee Island () 1893–1894 – Carl Anton Larsen led the second Norwegian expedition to Antarctica 1893–1895 – Henryk Bull, Carstens Borchgrevink and Alexander von Tunzelmann – set foot on Antarctica at Cape Adare 1897–1899 – Belgian Antarctic Expedition – led by Adrien de Gerlache; first to winter in Antarctica 1898–1900 – Southern Cross Expedition, Carsten Borchgrevink – sails to Cape Adare, winters on Antarctica and takes Farthest South on 16 February 1900 at 78° 50′ S 20th century 1901–1904 – Discovery Expedition – led by Robert Falcon Scott, on 30 December 1903, reached (82° 17′S) 1902 - First ballon flight over Antarctica by Robert Falcon Scott 1901–1903 – Gauss expedition (or First German Antarctic Expedition) – led by Erich von Drygalski 1901–1903 – Swedish Antarctic Expedition – led by Otto Nordenskjöld with captain Carl Anton Larsen 1902–1904 – Scottish National Antarctic Expedition – led by William Speirs Bruce 1903–1905 – Third French Antarctic Expedition – led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot 1907–1909 – Nimrod Expedition – On 9 January 1909, Ernest Shackleton reached 88° 23 ′S (Farthest South), and on 16 January 1909, Professor Edgeworth David reached the South Magnetic Pole at () (mean position) 1908–1910 – Fourth French Antarctic Expedition – led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot 1910–1912 – Japanese Antarctic Expedition – led by Nobu Shirase 1910–1912 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition – On 14 December 1911, reached the South Pole (90° S) 1910–1913 – Terra Nova Expedition – On 17 January 1912, Robert Falcon Scott, reached the South Pole (90° S) 1911–1913 – Second German Antarctic Expedition – led by Wilhelm Filchner 1911–1914 – Australasian Antarctic Expedition – led by Douglas Mawson 1914–1916 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition – led by Ernest Shackleton 1914–1917 – Ross Sea Party – led by Aeneas Mackintosh 1920–1922 – British Graham Land Expedition – a British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope 1921–1922 – Shackleton-Rowett Expedition – led by Ernest Shackleton – the last expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration 1924–1951 – Discovery Investigations 1928 - First aeroplane flight over Antarctica by Hubert Wilkins and Carl Ben Eielson 1929–1931 – British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) – led by Douglas Mawson 1928–1930 – Richard Evelyn Byrd – First expedition 1931 – H. Halvorsen – discovered Princess