The Bellingshausen-Palmer meeting
ABSTRACT The celebrated meeting between Captain Bellingshausen of the Imperial Russian Navy and the American sealing skipper Nathaniel Brown Palmer, off the South Shetland Islands in February 1821, has often been described by following just one or other of the two men's divergent and in some re...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247414000783 2024-03-03T08:38:47+00:00 The Bellingshausen-Palmer meeting Bulkeley, Rip 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000783 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247414000783 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 51, issue 6, page 644-654 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2015 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000783 2024-02-08T08:35:40Z ABSTRACT The celebrated meeting between Captain Bellingshausen of the Imperial Russian Navy and the American sealing skipper Nathaniel Brown Palmer, off the South Shetland Islands in February 1821, has often been described by following just one or other of the two men's divergent and in some respects irreconcilable accounts. The most contentious issue is whether or not Palmer told Bellingshausen about the existence of a body of land to the south of the South Shetlands, known today as the Antarctic Peninsula. This note attempts to reach a balanced assessment of the matter by examining evidence from both sides, including several previously unconsidered items. It concludes that, although the truth will never be known with absolute certainty, the basic American account is more plausible, by the narrowest of narrow margins, than the Russian. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Polar Record South Shetland Islands Cambridge University Press Antarctic The Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula South Shetland Islands Polar Record 51 6 644 654 |
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ABSTRACT The celebrated meeting between Captain Bellingshausen of the Imperial Russian Navy and the American sealing skipper Nathaniel Brown Palmer, off the South Shetland Islands in February 1821, has often been described by following just one or other of the two men's divergent and in some respects irreconcilable accounts. The most contentious issue is whether or not Palmer told Bellingshausen about the existence of a body of land to the south of the South Shetlands, known today as the Antarctic Peninsula. This note attempts to reach a balanced assessment of the matter by examining evidence from both sides, including several previously unconsidered items. It concludes that, although the truth will never be known with absolute certainty, the basic American account is more plausible, by the narrowest of narrow margins, than the Russian. |
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