Irish explorer who discovered Antarctica honoured in home village
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Edward Bransfield: the Corkman who discovered the Antarctic
Irish connections: On January 20th, 1820 an Irish master mariner sighted uncharted lands south of Cape Horn, like ‘two high mountains, covered in snow’
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