Go to Antarctica

Author: Jin Lei
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Over 2,000 years ago, the ancient Greeks proposed the existence of a "Unknown Southern Continent" at the southern tip of the Earth. However, whether it truly existed remained an unsolvable mystery. On January 17, 1773, at noon, Captain Cook's ship crossed the Antarctic Circle near 39 degrees east longitude, marking the first time in human history that someone had sailed over the Antarctic Circle. It wasn't until the 1980s that the earliest inventors of the compass turned their attention to that white continent. In the millennium year, the author was fortunate enough to become a member of the Chinese National Antarctic Scientific Expedition Team.