Bellingshausen’s “Mountains”: The 1820 Russian sighting of Antarctica and Bellingshausen’s theory of the South Polar ice cap

Abstract There has been some uncertainty as to which of the two southerly probes, during which Bellingshausen passed latitude 69°S in early 1820, achieved the first sighting of an ice coast of Dronning Maud Land in Eastern Antarctica. The author criticizes Frank Debenham’s English translation of Bel...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Bulkeley, Rip
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Dronning Maud Land
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice cap
Polar Ice Cap
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247419000755
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spelling crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247419000755 2023-05-15T14:06:43+02:00 Bellingshausen’s “Mountains”: The 1820 Russian sighting of Antarctica and Bellingshausen’s theory of the South Polar ice cap Bulkeley, Rip 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247419000755 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247419000755 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 55, issue 6, page 392-401 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2019 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247419000755 2022-04-07T08:58:00Z Abstract There has been some uncertainty as to which of the two southerly probes, during which Bellingshausen passed latitude 69°S in early 1820, achieved the first sighting of an ice coast of Dronning Maud Land in Eastern Antarctica. The author criticizes Frank Debenham’s English translation of Bellingshausen’s narrative before presenting and discussing new translations of Bellingshausen’s descriptions of those events, with relevant sections of his track chart, plus a third passage from the book which interpreted what was seen. He concludes that the Russians first sighted an ice coast in mid-February, rather than late January as has been widely claimed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Dronning Maud Land Ice cap Polar Ice Cap Polar Record Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Dronning Maud Land Polar Record 55 6 392 401
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Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
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Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
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Bellingshausen’s “Mountains”: The 1820 Russian sighting of Antarctica and Bellingshausen’s theory of the South Polar ice cap
topic_facet General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
description Abstract There has been some uncertainty as to which of the two southerly probes, during which Bellingshausen passed latitude 69°S in early 1820, achieved the first sighting of an ice coast of Dronning Maud Land in Eastern Antarctica. The author criticizes Frank Debenham’s English translation of Bellingshausen’s narrative before presenting and discussing new translations of Bellingshausen’s descriptions of those events, with relevant sections of his track chart, plus a third passage from the book which interpreted what was seen. He concludes that the Russians first sighted an ice coast in mid-February, rather than late January as has been widely claimed.
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title Bellingshausen’s “Mountains”: The 1820 Russian sighting of Antarctica and Bellingshausen’s theory of the South Polar ice cap
title_short Bellingshausen’s “Mountains”: The 1820 Russian sighting of Antarctica and Bellingshausen’s theory of the South Polar ice cap
title_full Bellingshausen’s “Mountains”: The 1820 Russian sighting of Antarctica and Bellingshausen’s theory of the South Polar ice cap
title_fullStr Bellingshausen’s “Mountains”: The 1820 Russian sighting of Antarctica and Bellingshausen’s theory of the South Polar ice cap
title_full_unstemmed Bellingshausen’s “Mountains”: The 1820 Russian sighting of Antarctica and Bellingshausen’s theory of the South Polar ice cap
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