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[5,"1819-1821","Capt. Thaddeus Bellingshausen","Tsar Alexander I, and Russian Navy","Vostok and Mirnyy",null,"Sea","Exploration (one of several Russian polar expeditions)","Russia"]
[35,"1907-1909","Lt. Ernest Shackleton, RNR","Sir William Beardmore, the Misses Dawson-Lambton, the Australian and New Zealand governments, and others","Nimrod",null,"Sea","To reach the Magnetic and Geographic South Poles, and to carry on scienti?c research","Great Britain"]
[35,"1907-1909","Lt. Ernest Shackleton, RNR","Sir William Beardmore, the Misses Dawson-Lambton, the Australian and New Zealand governments, and others","Nimrod",null,"Land","To reach the Magnetic and Geographic South Poles, and to carry on scienti?c research","Great Britain"]
[35,"1907-1909","Lt. Ernest Shackleton, RNR","Sir William Beardmore, the Misses Dawson-Lambton, the Australian and New Zealand governments, and others","Nimrod",null,"Land","To reach the Magnetic and Geographic South Poles, and to carry on scienti?c research","Great Britain"]
[37,"1910-1912","Roald Amundsen","Don Pedro Christophersen and other private donors","Fram",null,"Sea","To reach the South Pole","Norway"]
[37,"1910-1912","Roald Amundsen","Don Pedro Christophersen and other private donors","Fram",null,"Land","To reach the South Pole","Norway"]
[38,"1910-1913","Capt. Robert F. Scott, RN","Private contributions with the support of the Royal Society, and contributions from Commonwealth governments","Terra Nova",null,"Sea","Scientific work in the Ross Sea area and traverse to the South Pole","Great Britain"]
[38,"1910-1913","Capt. Robert F. Scott, RN","Private contributions with the support of the Royal Society, and contributions from Commonwealth governments","Terra Nova",null,"Land","Scientific work in the Ross Sea area and traverse to the South Pole","Great Britain"]
[42,"1914-1916","Sir Ernest Shackleton","Sir James Caird, other private donors, British government, and Royal Geographical Society","Endurance",null,"Sea","Transcontinental exploration","Great Britain"]
[54,"1933-1936","Lincoln Ellsworth","Lincoln Ellsworth",null,"Northrup monoplane (Polar Star)","Air","Transantarctic ?ight and aerial reconnaissance","United States"]