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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker updated 2024-10-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002265b.htm person Biscoe John AACR2 1794 1843 Place of Birth Enfield, Middlesex, England Place of Death at sea Explorer John Biscoe commanded the 1830-1832 Enderby Brothers Antarctic Expedition on the "Tula" and "Lively". He was the first to chart portions of the Antarctic continent other than the peninsula. Settled in Sydney and then Hobart, 1837-1843.

Born Enfield, Middlesex, England, 1794. Died at sea 1843. Joined the navy 1812; served during the American war, becoming acting master of "Moselle"; mercantile marine after the war, sailing as mate and master to the East and West Indies and most parts of the known world; whaling and sealing firm of Enderby from 1830, commanding "Tula" and "Lively" on a voyage of discovery to high southern latitudes, circumnavigating the Antarctic and discovering the northern Biscoe Islands (February 1832); nominated by the Enderbys in 1833 to command a second exploring expedition to the Antarctic, but the vessels sailed without him; traded between Liverpool and the West Indies; sailed for Australia in the "Superb" 1837; abortive southern sealing and exploring voyage from Port Jackson 1838-39; master of various inter-colonial vessels sailing between Hobart, Sydney and Port Phillip 1840-42; sailed for London 1843; died at sea.

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 'Biscoe, John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Biscoe, John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Biscoe, John (1794-1843), sea captain Savours, Ann Biscoe, John (1794-1843), sea captain Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1966 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 1: 1788 - 1850 A-H Douglas Pike 105-106 Journal Article: John Biscoe's Meteorological and Oceanogarphic Observations in the Southern Ocean, 1830-1832 Rubin, M.J. John Biscoe's Meteorological and Oceanogarphic Observations in the Southern Ocean, 1830-1832 1997 Polar Record 33 184 39-46