The supposed discovery of South Georgia by Amerigo Vespucci
There have been few more controversial figures in the history of exploration than Amerigo Vespucci, and it is therefore necessary to be extremely cautious in deciding whether he did, or did not, discover the island of South Georgia in the year 1501. Humboldt and Mill believed that he might have done...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400045174 2024-03-03T08:38:49+00:00 The supposed discovery of South Georgia by Amerigo Vespucci Christie, E. W. H. 1950 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400045174 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400045174 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 5, issue 40, page 560-564 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1950 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400045174 2024-02-08T08:38:27Z There have been few more controversial figures in the history of exploration than Amerigo Vespucci, and it is therefore necessary to be extremely cautious in deciding whether he did, or did not, discover the island of South Georgia in the year 1501. Humboldt and Mill believed that he might have done so, but thought that, on the whole, his most likely landfall was southern Patagonia or Tierra del Fuego. Matthews, who devoted considerable attention to working out distances and directions, came to the conclusion that Vespucci very probably arrived at South Georgia after leaving the coast of Brazil and sailing south-westwards, while the Australian map of Antarctica, published in Canberra in 1939, and the Antarctic Pilot (London, second edition, 1948) have respectively described this achievement as a probability and as a possibility. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Polar Record Tierra del Fuego Cambridge University Press Antarctic The Antarctic Patagonia Polar Record 5 40 560 564 |
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There have been few more controversial figures in the history of exploration than Amerigo Vespucci, and it is therefore necessary to be extremely cautious in deciding whether he did, or did not, discover the island of South Georgia in the year 1501. Humboldt and Mill believed that he might have done so, but thought that, on the whole, his most likely landfall was southern Patagonia or Tierra del Fuego. Matthews, who devoted considerable attention to working out distances and directions, came to the conclusion that Vespucci very probably arrived at South Georgia after leaving the coast of Brazil and sailing south-westwards, while the Australian map of Antarctica, published in Canberra in 1939, and the Antarctic Pilot (London, second edition, 1948) have respectively described this achievement as a probability and as a possibility. |
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