Antarctica Discovery

While conventional history credits the 1820 discovery of the Antarctic mainland by Russian, British, and American expeditions, some research suggests that Polynesian oral traditions may describe voyages into Antarctic waters as early as the 7th century CE.

While some theories and interpretations of ancient maps or oral traditions speculate that Antarctica may have been encountered by earlier navigators, there is no credible historical or archaeological evidence that the continent was "secretly found" or documented 300 years before its widely accepted