. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions. 312 DISCOVERY REPORTS ROBERT FILDES' CHARTi Offering little reward for sealers the islands were not seen again until the visit of the French expedition in the ' Astrolabe' and ' Zelee' under Dumont D'Urville in 1838. In the meantime Powell's chart of 1822 was revised by Captain Robert Fildes, a sealer of Liverpool, who had made several voyages to the South Shetlands but does not appear to have visited the South Orkneys. As far as the latter are concerned his chart (Fig. 5). Fig. 5. Fildes' Chart: taken from Chart of South Shetland
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions. 312 DISCOVERY REPORTS ROBERT FILDES' CHARTi Offering little reward for sealers the islands were not seen again until the visit of the French expedition in the ' Astrolabe' and ' Zelee' under Dumont D'Urville in 1838. In the meantime Powell's chart of 1822 was revised by Captain Robert Fildes, a sealer of Liverpool, who had made several voyages to the South Shetlands but does not appear to have visited the South Orkneys. As far as the latter are concerned his chart (Fig. 5). Fig. 5. Fildes' Chart: taken from Chart of South Shetland published by R. H. Laurie in 1831. shows no original work, the place names and corrections to the coast-line having been taken bodily from Weddell's map and applied to Powell's unfinished chart of 1822. Although Fildes follows Weddell erroneously in splitting Powell Island into two (see p. 311), leaving both parts, however, unnamed, he notes that the positions recorded in Weddell's book do not agree with those of his chart, and accordingly opposite Cape Dundas the following legend appears: "Placed by Captn. Weddell in his description in lat. 60° 46I' and long. 44° 35' 45". But, in his chart, in lat. 60° 53J' and long. 44° 30'." 1 This chart appears in the second edition of Powell's Chart of South Shetland, including Coronation Island, etc., which was published by R. H. Laurie in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Great Britain); National Institute of Oceanography; Great Britain. Colonial Office. "Discovery" Committee. London, New York, Cambridge University Press
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