. Fig- 5- Area covered in the search for Thompson Island and the Chimneys. Black dots are points at which ship's position was accurately fixed. Shaded area represents the limit of visibility from the crow's nest. The figures show soundings in metres. by Captain Norris of the whaler ' Sprightly' in 1825 as being approximately 45 miles north-east of Bouvet Island. Some rocks, called the Chimneys, were reported at the same time to lie about 4I miles to the south-eastward of Thompson Island. From 1825 until 1893 no one appears to have sighted the island, but in the latter year Captain Fuller of th
. Fig- 5- Area covered in the search for Thompson Island and the Chimneys. Black dots are points at which ship's position was accurately fixed. Shaded area represents the limit of visibility from the crow's nest. The figures show soundings in metres. by Captain Norris of the whaler ' Sprightly' in 1825 as being approximately 45 miles north-east of Bouvet Island. Some rocks, called the Chimneys, were reported at the same time to lie about 4I miles to the south-eastward of Thompson Island. From 1825 until 1893 no one appears to have sighted the island, but in the latter year Captain Fuller of the ' Francis Allen' is stated to have sighted it but to have been unable to fix its position on account of wind, ice and fog. Since then it has been unsuccessfully searched
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