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Morrell Records Phantom Land

When
March 1823
Where
Weddell Sea area
Part of
Benjamin Morrell reports the phantom New South Greenland

Captain Benjamin Morrell recorded an appearance of land in the Weddell Sea in March 1823, later known as New South Greenland or Morrell's Land.

Morrell sailed south into the Weddell Sea area on 6 March 1823. He assumed he was seeing the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, previously named New South Greenland by Robert Johnson in 1821. He did not consider this a new discovery at the time.

Sources

  1. New South Greenland Wikipedia, revision of 2025-09-07

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