. Handbook of polar discoveries. and theremade a series of observations. His extended series ofdeep-sea temperatures, taken with great care and regu- 300 Handbook of Arctic Discoveties larity, were worthless owing to unsuspected imperfectionsof his thermometric instruments. While the western end of Rosss barrier and the dis-covery of King Edward VII. Land by Scorr strictly pertainto this quadrant, it appears better to treat them underthe Australian Quadrant, in which these voyages wereprincipally made. The solitary island without the circle, in this vast ex-panse of unbroken sea, is in 59° 30
. Handbook of polar discoveries. and theremade a series of observations. His extended series ofdeep-sea temperatures, taken with great care and regu- 300 Handbook of Arctic Discoveties larity, were worthless owing to unsuspected imperfectionsof his thermometric instruments. While the western end of Rosss barrier and the dis-covery of King Edward VII. Land by Scorr strictly pertainto this quadrant, it appears better to treat them underthe Australian Quadrant, in which these voyages wereprincipally made. The solitary island without the circle, in this vast ex-panse of unbroken sea, is in 59° 30 s., 120° w., and itis doubtless identical with the land of Captain Swain, ofNantucket, who discovered an island in 1800, when ona whaling expedition in the Pacific in 59° 30 s.; but itsreported longitude is erroneous. Long known as SwainIsland, it has shared the fate of many discoveries and beenrenamed by later navigators Dougherty or Keats Island. For Cook and Bellingshausen see Chapter XIX. ForRoss see Australian Ml !: ^? i^*^ 14; «l PS I.! ^i 5: ^
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