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Antarctica | History, Map, Climate, Facts | Britannica Antarctica, the world’s southernmost continent, is almost wholly covered by an ice sheet and is about 5 5 million square miles (14 2 million square km) in size It is divided into East Antarctica (largely composed of a high ice-covered plateau) and West Antarctica (an archipelago of ice-covered mountainous islands)
Antarctica - Exploration, Wildlife, Ice | Britannica Antarctica - Exploration, Wildlife, Ice: Many nations were involved in the discovery and early exploration of Antarctica About 650 ce, however, long before European geographers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance were to conjecture about Terra Australis Incognita, a mythical land to the far south, Rarotongan oral tradition tells of Ui-te-Rangiora, who sailed south of Aotearoa (New Zealand
Edward Bransfield | Discoveries Facts | Britannica Edward Bransfield was an Irish-born English naval officer believed to have been the first to sight the Antarctic mainland and to chart a portion of it Master aboard HMS Andromache at Valparaíso, Chile, he was appointed to sail the two-masted brig Williams in order to chart the recently sighted