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Kemp, another of Enderby's skippers, reported land 

 in lat. 66 S., and about long. 60 E. 



In 1839 yet another skipper of the same firm, John 

 Ballenv, in the schooner Eliza Scott, discovered the 



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Balleny Islands. 



We then come to the celebrated French sailor, 

 Admiral Jules Sebastien Dumont d'Urville. He left 

 Toulon in September, 1837, with a scientifically 

 equipped expedition, in the ships Astrolabe and Zelee. 

 The intention was to follow in Weddell's track, and 

 endeavour to carry the French flag still nearer to the 

 Pole. Early in 1838 Louis Philippe Land and Joinville 

 Island were discovered and named. Two years later 

 we again find d'Urville's vessels in Antarctic waters, 

 with the object of investigating the magnetic conditions 

 in the vicinity of the South Magnetic Pole. Land was 

 discovered in lat. 66 30' S. and long. 138 21' E. With 

 the exception of a few bare islets, the whole of this land 

 was completely covered with snow. It was given the 

 name of Adelie Land, and a part of the ice-barrier lying 

 to the west of it was called Cote Clarie, on the supposi- 

 tion that it must envelop a line of coast. 



The American naval officer, Lieutenant Charles 

 Wilkes, sailed in August, 1838, with a fleet of six 

 vessels. The expedition was sent out by Congress, and 

 carried twelve scientific observers. In February, 1839, 

 the whole of this imposing Antarctic fleet was collected 

 in Orange Harbour in the south of Tierra del Fuego, 



