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Heiner Kubny
February 22, 1904 is a memorable day in Argentine polar exploration. That's when Argentina took over the "Orcadas" station and has held it since that date.
William Speirs Bruce was a young Scot who had travelled to Antarctica for the first time as an expedition leader in 1892-93. Bruce was also a member of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz Josef Land in 1896-97 and 1898 in Spitsbergen in the Arctic.
