Carsten Borchgrevink

Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink was born on December 1, 1864, in Christiania (now Oslo). After studying forestry in Tharandt, Germany, he emigrated to Australia, where he joined a whaling voyage that made the historic first confirmed landing on the Antarctic mainland at Cape Adare in 1895.

Securing financial backing from British publisher Sir George Newnes, Borchgrevink organized and led the British Antarctic Expedition of 1898–1900 aboard the Southern Cross. His party erected the first prefabricated huts on Antarctica, survived the brutal polar winter on the mainland, pioneered the use of sled dogs and camp stoves on continental ice, and set a new Farthest South record at 78°50'S on the Great Ice Barrier.