History of Antarctica - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Norwegian who led the first successful expedition to the South Pole in 1911	Roald Amundsen	71%
Country which claimed Norwegian Queen Maud Land as "New Swabia" in 1938	Germany	64%
Ancient Greek name for a hypothesized southern continent	Terra {Australis}	64%
This author's book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea depicted a submarine visiting here	Jules Verne	57%
Fuchs completed the first Trans-Antarctic crossing with help from this Kiwi of Everest fame	Edmund Hillary	50%
Island chain believed to be the above until Francis Drake sailed south of it in 1578	Tierra del Fuego	50%
Commanded the above ship among other iconic Heroic Age missions	Ernest Shackleton	43%
Briton who led a competing party which reached the South Pole 33 days later	R. Falcon Scott	43%
James Weddell was looking for these when he discovered a sea later named after him	Seals	43%
Island in the Scotia Sea which 5 men of the above mission reached to signal help	South Georgia	43%
Year in which Antarctica was first sighted	1820	29%
James Ross's two ships, for which two active volcanoes are named	Erebus and Terror	29%
Largest base in Antarctica, housing ~1500 individuals, founded in 1956	McMurdo Station	29%
This country established the first Antarctic base "Ormond House" in the South Orkneys	Scotland	29%
Signed in 1959 by 12 countries to ensure the environment of Antarctica stays protected	Antarctic Treaty	21%
First part of continental Antarctica claimed for a country, in this case France	{Adélie} Land	14%
Gigantic underwater cephalopod discovered near the South Sandwich Islands	Colossal Squid	14%
Ship whose crew of 28 was stranded for 589 days before being rescued in a heroic fashion	HMS Endurance	14%
Russian captain who saw it first	Bellingshausen	7%
French explorer sometimes credited as the "discoverer of Antarctica"	Dumont D'Urville	0%
Likely the first person to step on the continent while in search of seals	John Davis	0%
Japanese icebreaker who discovered two huskies alive after a year in the Antarctic	Sōya	0%

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