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First landings on Zavodovski Island, South Sandwich Islands, 1819

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

William Barr
William Barr
Affiliation:
Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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Abstract

On 24 December 1819 landing parties from each of Thaddeus Bellingshausen's ships, Vostok and Mirnyy, went ashore on Zavodovski Island, the most northerly of the South Sandwich group. Bellingshausen's second-hand account of these landings has long been available in English. This article presents (in translation) first-hand accounts of these landings by Professor Ivan Mikhaylovich Simonov, the expedition astronomer (from Vostok), and by Midshipman Pavel M. Novosil'skiy (from Mirnyy). Both writers comment on the vast numbers of macaroni and chinstrap penguins nesting on the island; these are still the two dominant penguin species there.

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Polar Record , Volume 36 , Issue 199 , October 2000 , pp. 317 - 322
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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