836 THE ANTARCTIC MANUAL. 
DISCOVERIES IN THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN, IN FreBRuaARY, 1839. 
EXTRACTED FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE ScHoonER ‘ Eniza Scort,’ 
COMMANDED BY Mr. Joun BaLLENY, COMMUNICATED BY CHARLES 
ENpeERBY, Esq.* 
Balleny Islands and Sabrina Land. 
Tuosr who take an interest in Antarctic discovery will remember that 
in the years 1831-2 Mr. John Biscoe, R.N., in command of the Tula, a 
brig belonging to the Messrs. Enderby of London, discovered two portions 
of land, about 110° of longitude apart, in the parallel of the Antarctic 
Circle, which were respectively named Graham Land and Enderby Land. 
In the following year Mr. Biscoe was again despatched by these spirited 
owners, but the vessel was wrecked. Nothing discouraged by this 
failure and by thesheavy loss already incurred, Messrs. Enderby, in con- 
junction with some other merchants, determined on another South Sea 
sealing voyage, giving special instructions to the commander of the expe- 
dition that he was to lose no opportunity of pushing as far as he could 
to the south, in hopes of discovering land in a high southern latitude. 
The schooner Eliza Scott, of 154 tons, commanded by Mr. John 
Balleny, and the dandy-rigged cutter Sabrina, of 54 tons, Mr. H. 
Freeman, master, the vessels selected for this purpose, having three 
chronometers on board, and well equipped with whatever appeared 
requisite or desirable on such an enterprise, sailed from the port of 
London on the 16th July, 1838. 
Sighting the island of Madeira, the two vessels crossed the equator 
in 22° 40' W. longitude, touched at the island of Amsterdam,{ and on the 
3rd December anchored in Chalky Bay near the south-western angle of 
the southern island of New Zealand, or, as named by the natives, Tawai 
Poénammit. 
* Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1839, p. 517. 
+ Amsterdam Island has been confounded in most English charts with the island 
of St. Paul, which lies nearly in the same meridian, but about 60 miles farther south. 
These islands, it is believed, were discovered by Vlaming in 1696; and from the account 
of his voyage given in Valentyn’s Oud en Niéuw Oost Indien, vol. iv. p. 69, we learn that 
in November and December of that year the Dutch navigator visited and landed on both 
the islands, applying the name of Amsterdam to the more northern. In October 1837, 
Captain Wickham, in Her Majesty’s ship Beagle, determined the position of the northern 
island to be in lat. 37° 52’, south long. 77° 36’ E., var. 21° W.; elevation 2760 feet: this 
position is within 4 miles of the latitude of Amsterdam Island, as given by Vlaming 
and D’Entrecastewux—Ep. Journ. Roy. Geogr. Soc. 
