The first Antarctic voyage of Edgar Allan Poe

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Higginson, Ian N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1994
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Pendleton; Antarc*; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400024554; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400024554

Abstract The Palmer-Pendleton sealing and exploring expedition (1829–1831) was the first American voyage of discovery to the Antarctic that had official government sanction. For the writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), this expedition was an important landmark in an age when science was beginning to...