Timeline Of New Zealand's Links With Antarctica

18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES

; 1770s

Captain James Cook and the crews of his expedition's ships, ''Resolution'' and ''Adventure'', become the first explorers to cross the Antarctic Circle

1770s

1830s

Sealers and Whalers arrive in New Zealand

1839

The Balleny Islands discovered by English Whaling captains John Balleny and Thomas Freeman

1841

Ross Sea and Mount Erebus discovered by James Clark Ross

1895

New Zealander Alexander Von Tunzelmann becomes the first person to set foot on Antarctica, at Cape Adare

1899

British expedition led by Carstens Borchgrevink , including several New Zealanders, establishes first base in antarctica, at Cape Adare

1900S

; 1902

Scott Island (formerly ''Markham Island'') was discovered and landed upon by Captain William Colbeck

1910S

; 1910

Robert Falcon Scott leaves for Antarctica from Port Chalmers . Scott's party later died on the return journey after being delayed by a blizzard

1920S

; 1923

Ross Dependency proclaimed

1928

US Navy Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd leaves Dunedin for the first sea-air exploration expedition to the Antarctic. Byrd overflew the South Pole with pilot Bernt Balchen on November 28 and 29, 1929 , to match his overflight of the North Pole in 1926. Establishes base at Little America

1929

Combined UK-Australia-NZ expedition led by Douglas Mawson

1930S

; 1933

New Zealand Antarctic Society founded

1934

Byrd becomes first person to winter over on the continent

1940S

; 1949

First publication of New Zealand Antarctic Society quarterly journal, '' Antarctic ''

1950S

; 1956

McMurdo Station established; construction of both Scott Base and Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station started

1957

International Geophysical Year

Scott Base established in Ross Dependency

Edmund Hillary leads an expedition using farm tractors equipped for polar travel, arrived at the Pole, the first expedition since Scott's to reach the South Pole over land

1958

United States '' Operation Deep Freeze '' starts, based in Christchurch

1959

New Zealand Department Of Scientific And Industrial Research established an Antarctic Division

Antarctic Treaty signed with other countries involved in scientific exploration in Antarctica

1960S

; 1965

The first flight from New Zealand to Antarctica made by a Royal New Zealand Air Force C130 (Hercules) aircraft

1968

Marie Derby becomes first New Zealand woman to work in the Antarctic.

1969

Vanda Station manned for the first time

South Pole visited for the first time by women - four Americans, an Australian, and New Zealander Pamela Young

1970S

; 1970

Antarctic Amendment Act comes into force

1974

Joint NZ-France expedition makes first ascent, and descent into crater, of Mount Erebus

1975

Prime Minister Bill Rowling had a formal proposal made at the Oslo Meeting for Antarctic to be declared a World Park.

1977

New Zealand proclaims Exclusive Economic Zone of 200 nautical miles (370 km), which provides for the zone to also include Ross Dependency's waters

1979

The DC-10 crashes and 257 people die.

1980S

; 1982

Robert Muldoon becomes the first Prime Minister Of New Zealand to visit Antarctica

1987

Closure of Scott Base Post Office (reopened in 1994 )

1990S

; 1995

Closure of Vanda Station

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