Four eye-witness accounts of Bellingshausen's antarctic voyage of 1819–21

Recently Soviet writers have claimed that Bellingshausen discovered the Antarctic mainland. The weakness of this argument when it is based upon Bellingshausen's own account of the voyage has been made clear in a previous note in this journal. The revival of interest has, however, brought to lig...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Armstrong, Terence
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1951
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400040936
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400040936
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Summary:Recently Soviet writers have claimed that Bellingshausen discovered the Antarctic mainland. The weakness of this argument when it is based upon Bellingshausen's own account of the voyage has been made clear in a previous note in this journal. The revival of interest has, however, brought to light several forgotten or hitherto unpublished eyewitness accounts and it is now possible to decide whether the authors held different views from Bellingshausen as to the discoveries made by the expedition.

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