 | Electronic journals - 1901 - 748 pages
...while the fleet lay at anchor in Yankee Harbor, Deception Island, during the season of 1 820 and 1821, being on the look-out from an elevated station, on...this newly discovered land, Captain NB Palmer, in the slope Hero, a vessel but little rising forty tons, was despatched. He found it to be an extensive mountainous... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Electronic journals - 1901 - 538 pages
...his first two voyages in full, because of their importance in the history of Antarctic discovery.* " The next season after the ' Hersilia's ' return from...perceived how this name came deservedly to be given to it, and by which it is now current in the modern charts. To examine this newly discovered land,... | |
 | Geography - 1901 - 760 pages
...while the fleet lay at anchor in Yankee Harbor, Deception Island, during the season of ] 820 and 1821, being on the look-out from an elevated station, on...this newly discovered land, Captain NB Palmer, in the slope Hero, a vessel but little rising forty tons, was despatched, lie found it to be an extensive... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Banks and banking - 1841 - 456 pages
...clear day he bad discovered mountains (one a volcano in eruption) in the south ; this 70 was what its now known by the name of Palmer's Land ; from the...charts. To examine this newly discovered land, Captain N. It. Palmer, in the sloop Hero, a vessel but little rising forty tons, was despatched ; he found... | |
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Island, during the season of 1 820 and 1821, being on the look-out from an elevated station, on the mountain of the island during a very clear day, he had discovered mountains (one a volcano in operation) in the south ; this was what is now known by the... 