It takes its name from Admiral Thaddeus Bellingshausen, who explored in the area in 1821.

The tactical mastermind of the Pearl Harbor operation, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was one of them.

US Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, with the assistance of his first pilot Bernt Balchen, became the first person to fly over the South Pole on November 29, 1928.

In secret talks in Washington, D.C., in June 1939, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William D. Leahy raised the possibility of an American fleet being sent to Singapore.

Santa Fe Island (Spanish Isla Santa Fe ), also called Barrington Island after admiral Samuel Barrington, is a small island of 24 km² (9m²) which lies in the centre of the Galapagos archipelago, to the south east of Santa Cruz Island.

Thanks to Chinese Admiral Zheng He, who steered his naval fleet across the Indian Ocean seven times in the early fifteenth century, the Chinese wok became the favorite cooking vessel of women in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala. Chinese fishing nets still dot the waters off Kochi.