Onye nchọpụta James Clark Ross gafere ihe a maara ugbu a dị ka Oké Osimiri Ross ma chọpụta Ross Island (nke abụọ aha ya) na 1841. Ọ gara ije n'akụkụ nnukwu mgbidi ice nke e mechara kpọọ Ross Ice Shelf. Ugwu Erebus na Ugwu Egwu ka a na-akpọ aha ụgbọ mmiri abụọ site na njem ya: HMS Erebus na Egwu. Mercator Cooper rutere n'Ebe Ọwụwa Anyanwụ Antarctica na 26 Jenụwarị 1853. N'oge njem Nimrod nke Ernest Shackleton duziri na 1907, ndị otu nke Edge David duziri ghọrọ ndị mbụ rịgoro Ugwu Erebus wee ruo South Magnetic Pole. Douglas Mawson, bụ onye were nduzi nke ndị Magnetic Pole na nloghachi ha dị egwu, gara n'ihu na-eduzi ọtụtụ njem ruo mgbe ọ laghachiri na 1931. Na mgbakwunye na Shackleton na ndị otu atọ ndị ọzọ nke njem mbụ ya na ọnwa ole na ole na Disemba 1908 <unk> A na-akpọ Ross Ice Shelf. Ugwu Erebus na Ugwu Egwu. Mercator Cooper rutere na East Antarctica na Jenụwar
Roald Amundsen