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While some expeditions were made during the mid 19th Century, the first major Antarctic expeditions occurred between the 1890s and 1920s in what is known as the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.
the First German expedition to the continent happened between 1901-1903, under captain Erich von Drygalski, who dubbed the patch of land he reached Kaiser Wilhelm II Land. The explorers Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott set out to become the first people to reach the South Pole, with Amundsen
Further expeditions by various different nations would be conducted during the 1920s and 30s. with Germany sending a ship under Captain Alfred Ritscher, who landed in Queen Maud Land and named an area of it NeuSchwabenland, both after the German Region of Swabia and the ship that carried the expedition crew.
=== The Scramble for Land ===
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