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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






1900S

; 1902


1910S

; 1910


1920S

; 1923

  • 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


; 1933

  • Byrd becomes first person to winter over on the continent

  • 1940S

; 1949

; 1956





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

  • 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

  • Closure of Scott Base Post Office (reopened in 1994 )



1990S

; 1995