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QWho was the first person to see Antarctica or its ice shelf?

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  • A Edward Bransfield ✔ ✖
  • B Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen ✔ ✖
  • C Nathaniel Palmer ✔ ✖
  • D John Davis ✔ ✖
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a captain in the Imperial Russian Navy, is credited with being the first person to see Antarctica or its ice shelf.
On 27 January 1820, he recorded sighting an ice shelf, three days before Edward Bransfield and 10 months before Nathaniel Palmer.

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