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Four eye-witness accounts of Bellingshausen's antarctic voyage of 1819–21

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Terence Armstrong
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Recently Soviet writers have claimed that Bellingshausen discovered the Antarctic mainland. The weakness of this argument when it is based upon Bellingshausen's own account of the voyage has been made clear in a previous note in this journal. The revival of interest has, however, brought to light several forgotten or hitherto unpublished eyewitness accounts and it is now possible to decide whether the authors held different views from Bellingshausen as to the discoveries made by the expedition.

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Polar Record , Volume 6 , Issue 41 , January 1951 , pp. 85 - 87
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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page 85 note 1 See the Polar Record, Vol. 5, No. 39, 1950, p. 475–78CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

page 85 note 2 Andreyev, A. I., (ed.). Plavaniya shlyupov “Vostok” i “Mirnyy” v antarktiku v 1819, 1820 i 1821 godakh [The voyages of the sloops “Vostok” and “Mirnyy” to the Antarctic in 1819, 1820 and 1821]Google Scholar. Moscow, Gosudarstvennoye Izdatel'stvo Geograficheskoy Literatury [State Publishing House for Geographical Literature], 1949.

page 86 note 1 Cook, James, A voyage towards the South Pole and round the world. London: W. StrahanGoogle Scholar; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1777. Vol. 2, p. 239.

page 86 note 2 Now Alexander I Land.