A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire" id="mwXg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Russian Empire">Russian</a> expedition led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Gottlieb_von_Bellingshausen" id="mwXw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen">Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Petrovich_Lazarev" id="mwYA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev">Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev</a> discovers the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic" id="mwYQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Antarctic">Antarctic</a> continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.