The discovery of Antarctica

BELLINGSHAUSEN Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus,
the discoverer of Antarctica.

BELLINGSHAUSEN, Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus - Russian navigator, born in Osel (Estonia) on 20 September 1778, died in Kronstadt on 25 January 1852. In 1803 he toured the world with Krusenstern and in 1819-1821 he led the corvettes Vostok and Mirny on a voyage of Antarctic exploration. He discovered the Traverse Islands, Peter I and saw a distant coastline that he called Terra Alessandro I and which is the current island of the same name. He made important geographical and cartographic surveys on the island of San Giorgio and on some islands of the South Sandwich Islands.

Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus, the discoverer of Antarctica

Fabian, was the first Grand Master of the Southern Lands (Antarctica) also known by the Russian name of Фаддей Фаддеевич Беллинсгаузен. In 1821 he founded the Sovereign Order of Antarctica, to protect the lands he had conquered, given to him by Tsar Alexander I of Russia.

On the return of the expedition, in fact, at the behest of the Tsar, the discovery of the new lands (the Antarctic), which occurred by chance during the search for Terra Australis, was not given much prominence. Incognita, a hypothetical continent illustrated on maps dating back to the period between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Fabian Gottlieb, with foresight, transformed the Order of the Ice Knights into a Sovereign Order, to protect the new possessions granted to it by the Tsar.

Through influences, and it is not known in what other way, the Sovereign Order managed to maintain, in total secrecy, the dominion of a portion of the Continent during the last two centuries and to influence the world powers in such a way as not to occupy or claim the territory that today goes from the South Pole to 60° S latitude, between longitudes 90° W and 135° W.

There is no other explanation for the fact that this portion of the Antarctic continent, which is somewhat less equivalent to the area of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Switzerland combined, has never been claimed by the powers and countries that have made formal claims to the Antarctic, either in the past or in the present.

Given the murky context, the anachronism of a secret society and the need to defend the sovereignty of the territory that remained under the control of the Order, the Knights were dissolved by the secret vote, the order updated to the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Antarctidaland and the territory was officially claimed as a Nation with the name of Antarcticland, by the former 42nd Grand Master of the Sovereign Order, Giovanni Capasso Gottlieb, in the year 2007, through an act of request for recognition and official claim of his territory, notified to the United Nations through the Supreme Court of New York.