ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



the south. As Lieutenant Clerke wrote in his log, 

 "If my friend Monsieur found any land, he has been 

 confoundedly out in the latitude and longitude of it." 



Fig. 3. — Cook's explorations (1772-1775) of Ant- 

 arctic SEAS ARE SHOWN RULED. A, B, C, D, E ARE 



CRUISES. The inner wliite area shows the Ant- 

 arctic SEAS yet to be explored. CONTINENTS ARE 



BLACK. 



Alexander Is., Enderby Land and Peter Is. are indicated, while 

 X shows Weddell's furthest. 



On the seventeenth of January, 1773, the Antarctic 

 Circle was crossed for the first time not far from 

 Enderby Land in longitude 40° E. As far north as 



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