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MARC recordA description of the New South Shetland Isles, by James Eights, Esq., M.D., naturalist in the scientific corps in the American Exploring Expedition, of brigs Seraph and Annawan under the command of Captain B. Pendleton, and N.B. Palmer, sent out to the South Seas under the directive agency of the author of this work, and the patronage of government in the years 1829 and 1830 / James Eights.
| Title: | A description of the New South Shetland Isles, by James Eights, Esq., M.D., naturalist in the scientific corps in the American Exploring Expedition, of brigs Seraph and Annawan under the command of Captain B. Pendleton, and N.B. Palmer, sent out to the South Seas under the directive agency of the author of this work, and the patronage of government in the years 1829 and 1830 / James Eights. |
| Author(s): | Eights, James. |
| Date: | 1838. |
| Publisher: | New York: William H. Vermilye |
| Abstract: | Describes topography, geological features, tides and currents, birds, seals and mermaids, and speculates on existence of southern continent. |
| Notes: | Offprint: Voyages to the South Seas, Indian & Pacific oceans, China Sea, North-west coast, Feejee Islands, South Shetlands, &c. &c. with an account of the new discoveries made in the southern hemisphere, between the years 1830-1837 / Edmund Fanning. Extract reprinted by Miles Apart in 1995. |
| Keywords: | 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1829-31 Pendleton. 57 -- Biology. 551.1/.4 -- Geology. 93"182" -- 1820-1829. W -- Expeditions and exploration. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (*726.1) -- South Shetland Islands. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-PAM: (*726.1) : 57 |
| SPRI record no.: | 2809 |
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