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• Emil Racoviţă

  

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  Date of birth:

  Nov 15, 1868

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  Country of nationality:

  • Romania

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  • Writer

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  Date of death:

  Nov 17, 1947

  Emil Racoviţă (Romanian pronunciation: [eˈmil ˈrakovit​͡sə]; also spelled Racovitza; November 15, 1868 – November 17, 1947) was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica. Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the...

• Adrien de Gerlache

  

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  Date of birth:

  Aug 2, 1866

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  Date of death:

  Dec 4, 1934

  Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (2 August 1866 – 4 December 1934) was an officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897 to 1899. Born in Hasselt, Belgium, de Gerlache was educated in Brussels. He...

• RV Belgica

  

  Belgica was and is the name of two Belgian research vessels, with a name derived ultimately from the Latin Gallia Belgica. Built in 1884 in Svelvik, Norway, the screw steamer Patria measured 36m(L) x 7.6m(W) x 4.1(H). With her wooden hull, the ship...

• Belgian Antarctic Expedition

  

  The Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE) of 1897 to 1899, named after its expedition vessel Belgica, was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. In 1896, Adrien de Gerlache purchased the Norwegian-built whaling ship Patria, which,...

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