ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



appealed to him much more than Antarctic exploration. 

 However, early in 1840 he decided to win for France 

 the credit of reaching the South Magnetic Pole. He 

 left Hobart on New Year's Day and on January 19th, 

 1840, the first land of the continent itself was sighted 



due south of Tasmania, to which he gave the name 

 Adelie Land (see Figure 5). 'Tt stretched as far as 

 the eye could see and was entirely covered with snow, 

 and it might have a height of one thousand to one 

 thousand two hundred meters." Several small islands 

 were seen in the vicinity and here rocks were collected, 

 and the adjacent cape was called Pointe Geologic. A 



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