‘ THE JOURNAL OF JOHN BALLENY. 
bottom. At noon, latitude by 
account 65° 45’, longitude 
164° 51’, wind §S., thermometer 
37°; altered the course to N.W. 
pm.— Thick fog. Saw many 
whales and seals, and both ice- 
bergs and drift-ice. At mid- 
night, light variable winds and 
cloudy dark weather. 
This was the last time that 
the land, now appropriately 
named the Balleny Isles, was 
seen. The group consists of five 
islands, three large and two 
small, the highest of which, 
named Young * Island, was esti- 
mated by Captain Balleny, as 
well as by his mates, at 12,000 
feet above the sea. It rises in 
a beautiful peak, which may be 
called Peak Freeman, as being 
on the island on which the 
commander of the cutter Sabrina 
landed. 
When at the distance of from 
8 to 10 miles from the centre 
island, with the extremes of the 
land bearing from west round 
southerly to east by south, the 
accompanying sketch was made 
by Mr. John McNab, second mate 
of the schooner. The outline of 
the islands is evidently volcanic, 
and the smoke which arose from 
the second island to the east, or 
Buckle Island, and the stones 
brought away from Young 
Island by Mr. Freeman, which 
prove to be scorie and basalt, 
with crystals of olivine, leave no 
doubt on the subject. These, 
* These islands and peaks are 
named respectively after Messrs. G. F. 
Row Island. 
Young Island. 
Rorradaile Island. 
THE BALLENY ISLANDS. 
West Bluff of Centre Island in lat. 66° 44’ S., long. 163° 11'E. Land bearing from West to East by South. 
Buckle Istand 
Surge Island 
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Discovered 9th February, 1839. 
Young, W. Borradaile, J. W. Buckle, T. Sturge, W. Brown, J. Row, and W. Beale, the 
spirited merchants who united with Mr. Enderby in sending out this expedition. 
