APPENDIX A 



Notes on Sources 

 The South Shetland Islands 



1. Captain James Cook, A Voyage Toward the South Pole, and Round the JVorld, (Lon- 

 don 1777), p. 231 



2. Captain William Smith, "Memorial to the Admiralty, Dec. 31, 1821" (P.R.O. Adm., 

 in letters 5029: Pro. S. 498, 1821) 



3. Ibid. 



4. Ibid.; Lt. Commander R. T. Gould, "Charting of the South Shetlands," The Mari- 

 ner's Mirror, Vol. XXVII, p. 212 



5. J. Miers, "Account of the Discovery of New South Shetland," Edinburgh Philosophi- 

 cal Journal, Vol. Ill (1820), pp. 367-80 



6. Gould, op. cit., p. 214 



7. Miers, op. cit,, also Gould, op. cit., p. 214 



8. J. Robinson's letter to Dr. Samuel Mitchell, in Niles Register, Sept. 16, 1820, Vol. 

 XIX, p. 43 



9. Gould, op. cit., p. 218 



10. John R. Spears, Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer, (New York, 1922), pp. 23-32 



11. Dr. Adam Young, "Notice of the Voyage of Edward Bransfield," Edinburgh Philo- 

 sophical Journal, Vol. IV, April, 1821, pp. 345-348 



12. Records of the Custom House of New London, copied in 1939 by James E. Murray, 

 W.P.A. field worker 



13. James Byers, Letter to Brig. Gen. Daniel Parker dated August 25, 1820, National 

 Archives of the United States, Records of the Dept. of State, Miscellaneous Letters, 

 August-October, 1820 



14. Captain Edmund Fanning, Voyages and Discoveries in the South Seas, (Salem, 1924), 

 pp. 301-304, Marine Research Society edition, Salem, Mass. 



15. La Gaceta de Buenos Aires, March 1, 1820 



16. Byers, op. cit., August 25, 1820 



17. Ibid. 



18. Byers, op. cit., letter dated Sept. 4, 1820 



19. Ibid. 



20. Captain John Davis, logbook of the ship Huron, of New Haven; entry Aug. 1, 1821 



21. Marine Column, New London Gazette, May 25, 1820. Also Marine Column of 

 New Bedford Mercury, May 27, 1820 



22. Thomas A. Stevens, "The First American Sealers in the Antarctic," May, 1954 



23. Marine Column, New London Gazette, Nov. 26, 1819 



24. Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror, Aug. 1820 



25. Ibid. 



26. Log of the schooner Huntress of Nantucket, Christopher Burdick, Master, entry for 

 Feb. 28, 1821. 



27. Captain Charles H. Barnard, A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures, New 

 York, 1829 



28. E. W. Hunter Christie, The Antarctic Problem, London, 1951, p. 82 



29. Jeremiah N. Reynolds, Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedi- 

 tion, New York, 1836, p. 228 



30. New London Gazette, Marine Column, op. cit. 



31. Log of the sloop Hero, Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer, Manuscript Division, Library 

 of Congress, entry for Nov. 14, 1820 



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