Antonio de la Roche and the discovery of South Georgia
Abstract This article seeks to investigate the claim that South Georgia may have been first discovered in April 1675 by an English merchant called Antonio de la Roche. There are two unresolved questions: whether La Roche was the first to see the island, and whether the island that he saw was South G...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s003224742300013x 2024-03-03T08:48:03+00:00 Antonio de la Roche and the discovery of South Georgia Campbell, Gordon 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224742300013x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224742300013X en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 59 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2023 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s003224742300013x 2024-02-08T08:47:07Z Abstract This article seeks to investigate the claim that South Georgia may have been first discovered in April 1675 by an English merchant called Antonio de la Roche. There are two unresolved questions: whether La Roche was the first to see the island, and whether the island that he saw was South Georgia. I introduce a third uncertainly by questioning whether Antonio de la Roche ever existed. He does not appear in the records of the French churches in London, and the sole source of his biography is the work of a fabricator, Francisco de Seyxas. Article in Journal/Newspaper Polar Record Cambridge University Press Polar Record 59 |
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Abstract This article seeks to investigate the claim that South Georgia may have been first discovered in April 1675 by an English merchant called Antonio de la Roche. There are two unresolved questions: whether La Roche was the first to see the island, and whether the island that he saw was South Georgia. I introduce a third uncertainly by questioning whether Antonio de la Roche ever existed. He does not appear in the records of the French churches in London, and the sole source of his biography is the work of a fabricator, Francisco de Seyxas. |
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