Who landed first on Antarctica?

Whenever a question like this is asked, Alexander von Tunzelmann usually takes the credit. Alexander von Tunzelmann is usually considered as the first person to ever land in Antarctica. This record was set on January 24, 1895. Although according to history, seven men, including Alexander von Tunzelmann, visited the continent, they did not set their feet on the Antarctic mainland at the same time; Alexander von Tunzelmann made it to the ocean shore before others.

Alexander Von Tunzelmann was born in June 1877, and he got recruited at the age of 17 by captain Leonard Kristensen. Tunzelmann and captain Leonard Kristensen and the remaining five people who were on the boat made it to Antarctica because they needed to get to the ocean shore to carry out some repairs on their boat. As a result of this, the landing site was named after Alexander von Tunzelmann. However, many still believe that captain Kristensen was the first person to ever land in Antarctica.

This is one of those unfair historical reports. I dare say the first person who landed did not survive to tell the tale. Of those fishing and other craft reaching Antarctica there may not have been means of telling the world of their accomplishment.

Norwegian explorer Carsten Borchgrevin gains the world recognition for being the first in1895, but for this read "first recorded" landing. He knew that others had landed before but did not acknowledge the fact and took the credit for himself.

Capt. John Davis in the Cecilia landed at Hughes Bay, Antarctic Peninsula 1817 and that same year occurred the first winter men spent on the continent, Eleven men from the Lord Melville, a sealer, stayed on King George Island, South Shetlands. It must have been hell!