Alexander von Tunzelmann
Deceased Person
1877 – 1957
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Who was Alexander von Tunzelmann?
Alexander Francis Henry von Tunzelmann, a New Zealand crew member of on the Norwegian whaling ship Antarctic was part of the first group known with certainty to have set foot on the mainland of Antarctica—at Cape Adare on 24 January 1895. It is possible that the Anglo-American sealer John Davis achieved this feat 74 years earlier, on 7 February 1821, but his journal entry is open to interpretation.
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