A voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-1824: containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude, and a visit to Tierra del Fuego with a particular account of the inhabitants

by James Weddell

An account of the first expedition to have wintered in the Antarctic regions. Weddell sailed further south than anyone before him and discovered the sea in the South Ocean which is now named after him. This work is interesting not only as the record of a voyage to what was then and for long after the highest southern latitude reached, but also as giving a survey of the South Shetlands, where many of the names - as 'Boyd's Straits,' 'Duff's Straits,' 'Sartoroius Island' - recall the names of the captains with whom Weddell had served.

First edition here (1825).

324 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1825

About the author

James Weddell (1787–1834) 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.

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[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

"On the 27th the winds were light, and the weather foggy, with a great westerly swell, hazardous. At midnight the wind freshened to a gale at west, and we lay to with the ship's head to the N.N.W."