ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



tude 56° S. for Cape Horn. Here again he crossed 

 the supposed continent and found no land whatever. 

 From the Horn he followed a course to Capetown 

 far south of that usually taken. His initiative was 

 rewarded by the discovery of the large rocky island 

 of South Georgia, which lies on the submarine ridge 

 connecting the Andes of South America to the Andes 

 of West Antarctica. Somewhat to the east he sighted 

 further ''peaks" of the same ridge which he named 

 the Sandwich Group. Then he made one more attempt 

 to sight Bouvet Island, and he must have passed only 

 a few miles to the south of it. After crossing his 

 original track of 1772 he turned to the north and 

 reached Capetown March 21st, 1775. 



Probably no other voyage, not even excepting Magel- 

 lan's, has done so much to remove "false lands" from 

 the world map. Cook's first cruise in large part mapped 

 the ice pack south of the Indian Ocean. His second 

 main cruise did the same work for the Pacific, while 

 his last cruise completed his task in the Atlantic. On 

 two occasions he practically reached the Antarctic con- 

 tinent, first near Enderby Land and secondly to the west 

 of Peter Island. Of supreme importance also was his 

 fight against scurvy, so that all his crew save one with- 

 stood this scourge throughout three years of unparal- 

 leled navigation. It was his misfortune to miss the 

 great continent which actually surrounds the South 

 Pole, for he only discovered two outlying isles off 

 South America. Of these South Georgia is, however, 

 the chief center of industry in Antarctic waters. The 

 same cruises were, however, much more successful in 



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