Polar & expedition maps

Ross South Polar Chart

Historical record

Expedition routes and geographic knowledge recorded on a historical southern-polar chart.

What this record establishes

Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.

Artifact date: 1847
Holding institution: UWM Libraries / World Digital Library / Library of Congress

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These are contextual links, not automatic corroboration.

Antarctic circumferential ice wall
Ross’s chart records southern exploration and the barrier encountered by ships, not a surveyed world-encircling boundary.
Insta360 timelapse of flight from Punta Arenas to Union Glacier
Modern expedition flight footage contrasts with historic ship-based exploration and the blanket no-fly claim. The records concern different dates and routes, not identical journeys.

Historical record
Adélie Land sledge route — Australasian Antarctic Expedition
Separately numbered original manuscript in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition records; inventory item 17, 64cm x 91cm. Nunatak. Commonwealth Bay. Cape Pigeon Rookery.
Historical record
Amundsen’s South Pole expedition routes
A separately catalogued expedition or regional map; scale 1 : 6 000 000. It records historical cartographic knowledge, not evidence of hidden continents.
Historical record
Antarctic chart annotated by Captain J. K. Davis
Annotated nautical chart preserved in the Davis collection, NAA P2819.
Historical record
Antarctic exploration map by Bayliss
South-centered azimuthal equidistant map compiles Antarctic exploration.