First landings on Zavodovski Island, South Sandwich Islands, 1819

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2000
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Sandwich Islands; South Sandwich Islands; Simonov; Zavodovski Island; Sandwich Group; South Sandwich Group; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400016806; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400016806

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.