Belgica was and is the name of three Belgian research vessels, with a name derived ultimately from the Latin Gallia Belgica .
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Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery was a Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.
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The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the RV Belgica, it was the first Belgian Antarctic expedition and is considered the first expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Among its members were Frederick Cook and Roald Amundsen, explorers who would later attempt the respective conquests of the North and South Poles.
Gallia Belgica was a province of the Roman Empire in present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
Two Sea Shepherd vessels have been named Farley Mowat:
RV Argo may refer to:
Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Melville, in honor of George W. Melville, an engineer and arctic explorer.
Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Thomas G. Thompson, in honor of oceanographer Thomas G. Thompson (1888–1961).
Belgica is a Brussels Metro station on line 6. It is located in the municipality of Jette, in the north-west of Brussels, Belgium. It opened on 6 October 1982 and is named in honour of RV Belgica; the ship that carried the first Belgian polar expedition to the Antarctic in 1897.
USNS Thomas G. Thompson may refer to
RV Pacific Escort is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:
Belgica Glacier is a glacier 8 nautical miles (15 km) long, flowing into Trooz Glacier to the east of Lancaster Hill on Kyiv Peninsula, on the west coast of Graham Land. It was first charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 after the RV Belgica, the ship of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache which explored this area in 1897–99.
Belgica was a barque-rigged steamship that was built in 1884 by Christian Brinch Jørgensen at Svelvik, Norway as the whaler Patria. In 1896, she was purchased by Adrien de Gerlache for conversion to a research ship, taking part in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1901, becoming the first ship to overwinter in the Antarctic. In 1902, she was sold to Philippe, Duke of Orléans and used on expeditions to the Arctic in 1905 and from 1907 to 1909.
A number of steamships have been named Belgica.
RV Borys Aleksandrov is a Ukrainian research vessel which was built in 1984. She was previously manned by the Belgian Naval Component as RV Belgica and is in active service.
RV Rachel Carson is the name of four research vessels, named after the American marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson.
The New Belgica is a replica of the RV Belgica (1884), a research vessel with a proud history.
Belgica Rupes is an escarpment in the Debussy quadrangle of Mercury. The escarpment is approximately 425 km long and cuts across the crater Carleton. It was named after the RV Belgica, a Belgian ship used for an expedition to determine the position of the South Magnetic Pole in 1898, and the first ship to winter in Antarctica. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2013.