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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 strait. 



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 Admiralty. 



