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First American sighting of Antarctic peninsula Palmer Land
In 1820 Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer and six crewmen aboard the sloop Hero from Stonington Conn sighted the Antarctic peninsula later named Palmer Land, a claim regarded as the first discovery of Antarctica. Mistletoe is poisonous to humans, with its berries posing a hazard.
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