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QWhen did the Norwegian-Swedish whaling ship Antarctic make the first confirmed landing on the continental mass of Antarctica?

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  • A Edward Bransfield ✔ ✖
  • B Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen ✔ ✖
  • C Charles Wilkes ✔ ✖
  • D James Clark Ross ✔ ✖
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James Clark Ross, a British naval officer, failed to realize that the various patches of land recently discovered by American, French, and English navigators formed a single continent.
He referred to them as separate patches of land on the verge of the Antarctic Circle, without recognizing their connection as part of a larger landmass.

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