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Edward Bransfield (1785-1852) on 30 January 1820 sighted Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic mainland. 
Unknown to Bransfield, two days earlier, 28 January 1820, the Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen may have caught sight of an icy shoreline now known to have been part of East Antarctica. 
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