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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.
He reportedly died in 1839, [46] and is commemorated by Morrell Island, 59°27'S, 27°19'W, an alternative name for Thule Island in the Southern Thule sub-group of the South Sandwich Islands. [47] Robert Johnson, who coined the name New South Greenland, disappeared with his ship in 1826, while investigating the Antarctic waters in the vicinity ...
Some credence to his claimed southern latitude is provided by James Weddell's voyage on a similar track, a month earlier, which reached 74°15'S before retreating. [23] The words used by Weddell to express his belief that the South Pole lay in open water are replicated by Morrell, whose account was written nine years after the event.
The family of a French explorer who died in the Titan submersible implosion seeks $50 million in wrongful death lawsuit.
August 24 – James Weddell (died 1834), Flemish-born Anglo-Scots seal hunter and Antarctic explorer. September 5 – François Sulpice Beudant (died 1850), French mineralogist et geologist. September 15 – Guillaume-Henri Dufour (died 1875), Swiss engineer et topographer. November 5 – John Richardson (died 1865), Scottish naturalist ...
Almost a month after he died in a submersible implosion on his way to see the Titanic wreck, a French explorer was remembered Wednesday by filmmaker James Cameron and others as someone whose deep ...
The estate of a French explorer killed along with others in the implosion of the deep-sea submersible Titan last year has sued the company that built it and embarked on the deadly trip to the ...
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