HIS TOR Y OF DISCO VER Y. 119' 



bottom was reached at a depth of 1,150 feet, but the rapid 

 course of the vessel rendered a repetition and verification 

 of this measurement impossible. On the 5th of February 

 the Antarctic circle was crossed in longitude 30° 45' E., 

 and on the nth the highest latitude attained during the 

 voyage, latitude 67° 50' S. and longitude 39° 40' E., was 

 reached, but at the same time such heavy pack-ice was 

 encountered that further progress south was out of the 

 question. Land, or indications of it, was not seen, pro- 

 bably in consequence of the dense fog. For some time 

 Moore attempted to approach Enderby Land, but was 

 hindered and thwarted by violent storms from the south- 

 east, so that he was compelled to take a course towards 

 the north, frequently hard pressed by the numerous and 

 huge icebergs. Up to the 10th of March, where the 

 parallel was crossed in longitude 98° E., Moore remained 

 in latitude 6o° S., and then he reached latitude 64° 1 5' S., but 

 one degree east of the spot where the Challenger twenty- 

 nine years later attained her highest southern latitude. 

 As the vessel had suffered somewhat severely, and the 

 ice in latitude 55° S. and longitude iio° E. rendered 

 further progress south-east impossible, Moore steered 

 north, and reached King George's Sound in Western 

 Australia on the 1st of April. 



This was the last voyage in Antarctic regions for close 

 upon twenty years ; meantime discoveries were made in 

 the region of the drift-ice. Dougherty Island, found by 

 Captain Dougherty in 1841, in latitude 59° 20' S. and 

 longitude 119° 45' W., was first declared to be merely an 

 iceberg, but it was subsequently seen and verified by 

 Captain Keates in 1859. The scattered groups of the 

 Heard and Macdonald Islands, between latitude 53° 1' 

 S. and 53° 14' S., and longitude 72° 32' and yf 53' E., 

 were discovered and rediscovered by a number of navi- 

 gators, more particularly by the eminent German physio- 

 grapher, Georg Neumayer, though first seen by Captain. 



