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Admiralty American amongst Antarctic circle Antarctic Expedition Antarctic regions appeared Arctic Australia Balleny Balleny Islands barrier Bellingshausen bergs Biscoe Bouvet Bouvet Island brig British Cape Adare Cape Crozier Cape Horn Captain century chart coast command Cook Cook's course crew crossed cruise D'Urville discovered discovery Earth east eastward edge Eliza Scott Enderby Enderby Land Erebus and Terror farthest fathoms February feet gale Graham Land harbour high latitude hope ice-islands icebergs Island James Clark Ross January Kerguelen land Lieutenant London longitude magnetic observations meridian miles mountains named naval navigation Navy northward observatory Ocean officers open sea pack Palmer Land passed penguins polar port position reached rocks Ross Ross's round Royal Geographical Society sailed sailors scientific sealers seals seen ships shore sight snow South Pole South Shetlands southward Strait Terra tion vessels Victoria Land voyage weather Weddell Weddell's whale Wilkes wind winter