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Antarctica was in the news last week. In Antarctica itself, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd was starting a 1,000-mile trek from the Bay of Whales. In Philadelphia was celebrated an antarctic centenary-the discovery of the Antarctica Continent by Charles Wilkes. To observe this anniversary, Philadelphia's...
Charles Wilkes was not the first to find antarctic land-that had been done 20 years earlier by Nathaniel Brown Palmer, a Connecticut sealing captain-but he was the first to make enough landfalls to establish an Antarctic Continent. After the War of 1812, whaling and sealing began to spread...
With a fleet of battered old tubs, inadequate clothing, excellent instruments, he sailed off in 1838. He had 83 officers, 342 enlisted men, nine scientists. In 1840 he established the existence of 1,500 miles of Antarctic coastline. On the way home he did a lot more exploring, some of...
In November 1861, when the U. S. Civil War was just getting going. Captain Charles Wilkes of the Union Navy, commanding the screw sloop San Jacinto, fired a shot across the bows of the British Royal Mail packet Trent as she steamed along the Bahama Channel. The Trent hove to...
Queen Victoria's Government (Prime Minister: Lord Palmerston) was so incensed that, besides a hot note to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, it sent 8,000 picked troops to Canada, got its Navy ready. England raged and ranted about dismembering the upstart Republic. New York City feted Captain Wilkes...