. Fig. 3. Macleod's and Weddell's tracks in December, January and February, 1821-2: taken from Weddell's track chart in A Voyage towards the South Pole. Clarence Island: "Entre sept & huit heures nous relevons encore les iles Orkney aux bornes de I'horizon presqu'a vingt lieues de ; This second sighting of the South Orkneys, following so close on their discover}' by Powell, is generally ascribed nowadays to Weddell, who was then at the South Shetlands on his second southern voyage. Bruce^ writes: " Weddell, definitely, in December 1821, cruised into the north-wester
. Fig. 3. Macleod's and Weddell's tracks in December, January and February, 1821-2: taken from Weddell's track chart in A Voyage towards the South Pole. Clarence Island: "Entre sept & huit heures nous relevons encore les iles Orkney aux bornes de I'horizon presqu'a vingt lieues de ; This second sighting of the South Orkneys, following so close on their discover}' by Powell, is generally ascribed nowadays to Weddell, who was then at the South Shetlands on his second southern voyage. Bruce^ writes: " Weddell, definitely, in December 1821, cruised into the north-western corner of the Weddell Sea in the cutter Beaufoy of Lon- don, almost synchronously with Powell and N. B. Palmer, but scarcely so far east, and almost simultaneously discovered the South ; Recent investigation, however, 1 Yalour, J., En el ultima viaje de la Uruguay a las regioncs polares, Bol. Inst. Geog. Argentina, xxii, p. 34. 2 D'Urville, D., 1842, Voyage au Pole Sud, Histoire du Voyage, 2, p. 137 (Paris). 3 Bruce, W. S., 1917, loc. cit., supra, p. 243.
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