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Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)
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Nathaniel Palmer
American naval explorer and seal hunter (1799–1877)
Nathaniel Brown Palmer was an American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, ship designer, and a whale hunter. He gave his name to Palmer Land, Antarctica, which he explored in 1820 on his sloop Hero. He was born in Stonington, Connecticut, and was a descendant of Walter…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Antarctic Peninsula
Peninsula located in northern Antarctica
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)