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James Weddell FRSE (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle—and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea.
James Iredell Waddell (July 3, 1824 – March 15, 1886) was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy. During the American Civil War , Waddell took command of the CSS Shenandoah , which he used to sail around the globe and launch raids against the U.S. Navy.
The sea is named after the Scottish sailor James Weddell (1787-1834), who entered the sea in 1823 and originally named it after King George IV; it was renamed in Weddell's honour in 1900. [5] Also in 1823, the American sealing captain Benjamin Morrell claimed to have seen land some 10–12° east of the sea's actual eastern boundary.
Jane was an American vessel launched in 1810 or 1812 and taken in prize, first appearing in British registers in 1818. She then became a whaler.Under the command of Captain James Weddell she explored the area around the South Shetland Islands and in 1823 reached the southernmost point ever reached until then.
James Weddell was an Anglo-Scottish seaman who saw service in both the Royal Navy and the merchant marine before undertaking his first voyages to Antarctic waters. In 1819, in command of the 160-ton brigantine Jane which had been adapted for whaling, he set sail for the newly discovered whaling grounds of the South Sandwich Islands.
James D. Weddle is a former managing partner of Edward Jones Investments.He joined the firm as an intern while earning his MBA at Washington University in St. Louis when he was hired in 1976 as a part-time intern in the firm’s Research department and spent his entire forty year career with Edward Jones.
The Yahgan left strong impressions on all who encountered them, including Ferdinand Magellan, [dubious – discuss] Charles Darwin, Francis Drake, [dubious – discuss] James Cook, James Weddell, and Julius Popper. [18] Royal Navy officer Robert FitzRoy became captain of HMS Beagle in November 1828, and continued her first survey voyage.
The name has been credited to Captain James Weddell, who supposedly created the term in 1822. [1] The indigenous Fuegians belonged to several different ethnic groups including the: Selkʼnam, also known as Ona or Onawo; Haush, also known as Manek'enk; Yahgan, also known as Yagán, Yaghan, Yámana, Yamana, or Tequenica