🧭January 29 marks theDiscoverers’ Day in Russia
🧊 On this day in 1820, Russian naval officers Faddey Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered #Antarctica – the sixth continent.
The expedition lasted 751 days. Sailing aboard the two sloops Vostok and Mirny, the 102-strong crew were the first to map the boundaries of the Antarctic continent.
The voyage was extremely arduous and dangerous. Small wooden sailing vessels had to navigate close to ice and icebergs, often in dense fog. Heading south, on January 28, the Russian navigators came within close proximity of the icy shores of a previously unknown land.
📝Mikhail Lazarev later wrote about that historic moment:
“We reached latitude 69°23 S, where we met main ice of extraordinary height… and looking out from the crosstrees, it stretched just as far as our gaze could reach… At last, there lay before us that southern main, so long sought after, whose existence scholars in their studies had deemed necessary for the balance of the globe.”
Braving fierce ocean swells and polar ice, the expedition successfully circumnavigated the continent. This remarkable voyage brought glory to Russia and turned St Petersburg into a leading centre of global geography. The results of the expedition, which led to the discovery of Antarctica and twenty-nine new islands, represent an Russia's outstanding contribution to the history of geographical exploration.
Later, shortly after the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union resumed its exploration of the continent. In 1946, the Slava whaling flotilla, carrying a scientific team, sailed to Antarctica. They reached the point where Bellingshausen and Lazarev had sighted the “main ice” and verified the accuracy of their original accounts.
On February 13, 1956, the first Soviet Antarctic research station, the Mirny Observatory, was officially opened. This was later followed by a network of year-round Russian stations.
🇷🇺 Today, Russia continues its research in Antarctica. In late 2024, a new wintering complex entered service at the inland Vostok Station. In 2025, the research vessel Akademik Tryoshnikov completed the International Antarctic Coastal Circumnavigation Expedition. The 71st Russian Antarctic Expedition is currently underway.
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It’s open to everybody and no country owns it. People and wildlife coexist here peacefully. What’s this wonderful place? It’s Antarctica, the world’s coldest and most pristine continent!
On this day, exactly 62 years ago, a conference in Washington DC paved the way for the Antarctic Treaty, which proclaims that the world's southernmost continent should be free of weapons, borders, and exploitation. Only science and collaboration are welcome here.
To honour that date, here are some interesting facts.
❄️ You can’t take anything out of the continent, including stones, feathers, or anything manmade.
❄️ Antarctica has the lowest recorded temperature on earth, -89.2 degrees Celsius.
❄️ America’s McMurdo station is the largest research station here, with over 1,000 scientists working throughout the year.
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