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WOSTOCK is an island a little more than half a mile in diameter, and apparently quite flat and low, and was discovered by Bellinghausen; it is situated a little west of Caroline Island, but it is not placed on the French charts; I have not coloured it, although I entertain little doubt from the chart of Bellinghausen, that it originally contained a small lagoon.
Continuing their easterly course in S. lat. 60 degrees for 400 miles as far as W. long. 187 degrees, the explorers then bore south to S. lat. 70 degrees, where their further progress was arrested by a barrier of ice. Bellinghausen, nothing daunted, tried to cut his way eastwards into the heart of the Polar Circle, but at 44 degrees E. long, he was compelled to return northwards.
On Conjugal Love the classic models are first consulted, Oenone, Evadne, Medea, these characters being followed through the delineation of modern dramatists. We know of no more exquisite criticism than the pages devoted to Griseldis. Analyzing the accounts of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Perault, our author concludes with the play of "Munck Bellinghausen."
The Vostok, Captain Bellinghausen, and the Mirni, commanded by Lieutenant Lazarew, left Cronstadt on the 3rd July, 1819, en route for the Antarctic Ocean.
The wildest dreams of Muellner and Werner sink into insignificance before the extravagance of this production, both in language and sentiment. The "Sappho" of this author displays much lyric beauty. One of the best national tragedies was written by Muench Bellinghausen. Charlotte Birchpfeifer has dramatized a great number of stories.
On January 17, 1773, the famous Captain Cook went along the 38th meridian, arriving at latitude 67 degrees 30'; and on January 30, 1774, along the 109th meridian, he reached latitude 71 degrees 15'. In 1819 the Russian Bellinghausen lay on the 69th parallel, and in 1821 on the 66th at longitude 111 degrees west. In 1820 the Englishman Bransfield stopped at 65 degrees.
On the 9th January, Bellinghausen reached 70 degrees S. lat., and the next day discovered, in S. lat. 69 degrees 30 minutes, W. long. 92 degrees 20 minutes, an island, to which he gave the name of Peter I., the most southerly land hitherto visited. Then fifteen degrees further east, and in all but the same latitude, he sighted some more land which he called Alexander I.'s Land.
The most daring, or, perhaps I ought to say, the most lucky of those discoverers who had preceded the Halbrane, under the command of Captain Len Guy, in the Antarctic seas, had not gone beyond Kemp, the sixty-sixth parallel; Ballerry, the sixty-seventh; Biscoe, the sixty-eighth; Bellinghausen and Morrell, the seventieth; Cook, the seventy-first; Weddell, the seventy-fourth.
After a voyage of forty miles a large country hove in sight, which a whaler was to discover twelve years later when the ice had broken up. Back again in S. lat. 62 degrees, Bellinghausen once more steered eastwards without encountering any obstacles, and on the 5th March, 1820, he made for Port Jackson to repair his vessels.
Bellinghausen, yet another Russian explorer Discovery of the islands of Traversay, Peter I., and Alexander I. The whaler, Weddell The Southern Orkneys New Shetland The people of Tierra del Fuego John Biscoe and the districts of Enderby and Graham Charles Wilkes and the Antarctic Continent Captain Balleny Dumont d'Urville's expedition in the Astrolabe and the Zelée Coupvent Desbois and the Peak of Teneriffe The Straits of Magellan A new post-office shut in by ice Louis Philippe's Land Across Oceania Adélie and Clarie Lands New Guinea and Torres Strait Return to France James Clark Rosset Victoria.
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