. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions. HISTORY OF THE ISLANDS 311 exactly with its plotted position in the chart. Moreover, Brisbane's boats seem to have overlogged their westerly distance so that the south coast of Coronation Island relatively to the north has been given an exaggerated length. The boats, however, appear to have found the anchorage now known as Falkland Harbour (see p. 341) and also discovered the existence of Signy Island (see p. 325 and Fig. 9) although it is left unnamed in Weddell's chart. The present Powell Island (Fig. 9), which was correctly char
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions. HISTORY OF THE ISLANDS 311 exactly with its plotted position in the chart. Moreover, Brisbane's boats seem to have overlogged their westerly distance so that the south coast of Coronation Island relatively to the north has been given an exaggerated length. The boats, however, appear to have found the anchorage now known as Falkland Harbour (see p. 341) and also discovered the existence of Signy Island (see p. 325 and Fig. 9) although it is left unnamed in Weddell's chart. The present Powell Island (Fig. 9), which was correctly charted by Powell as a single island, is divided by Weddell into a northern Dibdin's Island and a southern Cruchley's Island, the two being separated by a narrow Fig. 4. Weddell's Chart: from the chart in A Voyage towards the South Pole. Weddell, knowing nothing of Powell's previous discovery, gives entirely new names throughout his chart: for instance, Pomona or Mainland^ for Powell's Coronation Isle, and Melville's Island- for Powell's Laurie's Island. That Weddell's West Cape and Powell's West Cape should be applied to almost the same point is only a natural coincidence. Although his survey was rough Weddell definitely proved that the group terminated in the east with Cape Dundas, and a few days afterwards he finally disproved that any land existed between the South Orkneys and the South Sandwich Islands. 1 After Pomona or Mainland in the northern Orkneys. ^ After Viscount Melville, then First Lord of the 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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