Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
The U. S. Exploring Expedition in Antarctica
POSTED ON: Friday, January 31, 2020
by Jennifer Bryan
On January 19, 1840, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, USN, commander of the United States South Seas Exploring Expedition, claimed for his country the discovery of Antarctica after sighting land from the sloop-of-war USS Vincennes, the flagship of the ...
The Voyage of the Jeannette
POSTED ON: Wednesday, July 10, 2019
by Jennifer Bryan
Despite centuries of exploration in high northern latitudes, the Arctic Ocean remained a puzzle in the late 1800s. What lay above latitude 71° north? An open polar sea? A land mass to correspond with ...