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The collection comprises of material relating to Weddell's voyages south including the British Sealing Voyage, 1820-1821 and the British Sealing and Exploratory Voyage, 1822-1824, (both led by Weddell), correspondence by Weddell and biographical notes on him and the Weddell family.
James Weddell (1787–1834) a self-taught navigator, started his sailing career aged 9 and later led several voyages towards the Antarctic. This book, first published in 1825, is his account of the voyage of the Jane, which went on a sealing trip to the Falklands and beyond, but turned back before reaching Antarctica itself.
30 mar 2015 · Weddell, James,1787-1834. Publication date. 1827. Topics. Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile), Antarctic Ocean. Publisher. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. Collection. biodiversity.
James Weddell is celebrated in polar history for his voyage of 1822–24 during which he penetrated the then unknown Weddell Sea as far as lat. 74° S., in the brig Jane and the cutter Beaufoy. This note sheds light on some other events in his life and records where the source material is to be found.
WEDDELL, JAMES. 1787 - 1834 from United States (also Belgium) sealer and explorer, appears to have been born either in Ostend, Belgium or Massachusetts, the son of an upholsterer by trade, who migrated from his native Lanarkshire to London and his wife Sarah, née Pease.
James Weddell (ur. 24 sierpnia 1787 w Ostendzie, zm. 9 września 1834 w Londynie) – brytyjski żeglarz, wielorybnik i łowca fok, eksplorator Antarktyki. Weddell dowodził trzema wyprawami do Antarktyki – kolejno w latach 1819–1821, 1821–1822 i 1822–1824.
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