Enderby Land

Enderby Land lies in 65° 57' S. lat., 47° 20' E. long., discovered by John Briscoe in 1831, on a whaling voyage, and named in honour of his employer, Samuel Enderby, an adventurous London merchant, and the maternal grandfather of Chinese Gordon. His fleet of whalers first rounded the Horn, and actually opened up the Southern Ocean, discovered the Auckland Islands, and carried the first batch of convicts to Botany Bay. Briscoe, from stress of weather and extreme cold, could not approach Enderby Land within 20 or 30 miles, and was thus unable to say whether it was an island or a strip of continental coast.