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The early history of Peter I Island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2013

Rip Bulkeley*
Affiliation:
38 Lonsdale Road, Oxford, OX2 7EW ([email protected])

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None of the logbooks or officers’ journals of the 1819–1821 Russian Antarctic expedition, commanded by Junior Captain Faddei Faddeyevich Bellingshausen, have yet been found. The discovery of Peter I Island was recorded in two reports from the commander, on Sheet 13 of a 15-sheet track chart of the expedition which he prepared during the voyage home (Belov 1963: 32), in his subsequent book (Bellinsgauzen 1831), and in narratives penned by four other eye-witnesses.

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