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December scarce a day passed without wet and the most tempestuous weather for a continuance I ever experienced in any port. Although the seasons appeared to be late, yet vegetation is very rapid ...Animals I saw none but the amphibious kind, such as hair seals and elephants , and they are not very numerous ... For the benefit of future navigators, I left a breed of hogs on
Enderby Island.
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Although
Bristow took possession of the Auckland Islands for the British Crown they proved of little value during the 19th century. Charles Enderby, whose father owned the ship on which Bristow discovered the islands, established a whaling settlement that lasted from 1849 to 1852. Another attempt to
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October 1807. The mountains were then covered with snow, the weather exceptionally cold, with almost continual storms of wind. The atmosphere was uncommonly thick and heavy, and until the end of October much snow fell. November produced heavy rain, and in fact till I left the island on 19th
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s (my friend through my father). They are situated in latitude 50 degrees 48 minutes South, and longitude 166 degrees 42 minutes East ... The land is of moderate height, and from its appearance I have no doubt but it will afford a good harbour in the north end ... This place I should suppose abounds
208:(243 tons) which departed Britain in May 1800. He called at Sydney on 7 April 1801, with 270 barrels of sperm whale oil aboard, plus casks of salt for salting seal skins. After a few weeks there he departed Port Jackson for the eastern Pacific, returning to London in November 1802.
484:(302 tons). This vessel departed London in 1816 and by January 1818 was reported at Timor. The vessel called at St Helena on the return journey, arriving London in May 1818 with 560 casks of whale oil. Jones says Bristow made one more South Sea voyage in this vessel and was at the
277:. She departed London in April 1807 and arrived at the Auckland Islands in October, for a more detailed examination, and to claim the islands for Britain. The group consisted of six separate islands with a total area of 240 square miles (620 km).
391:. Bristow was back in London by January 1810. He reported to Lord Auckland he had named a group of islands in his honour. He also reported the discovery to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty and to the main cartographers in London.
239:. From there they departed for the sperm whale fishery off New Zealand. They returned to Adventure Bay off Tasmania in May 1806, and departed for Britain on 4 August. Two weeks later, on 18 August 1806, they discovered the
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Captain Bristow in December 1819 and was reported sealing at the New South Shetland Islands, but by then under the command of a Captain McGregor. A Captain Bristow commanded the
122:; the fifth child and third son of Abraham Bristow snr and Rachael Johnson. He had four brothers and four sisters. When he was about 16 years of age Abraham was bound as an apprentice seaman in the
343:, off Bougainville and Papua New Guinea. Bristow refined and corrected observations made by earlier navigators in these waters, later publishing his findings, which were described by
429:, where several unchartered reefs and low islands were discovered. These were named "Mellish's Keys" or "Mellish's Reefs" and still bear that name today. They next called at the
477:. The ship turned then for home, reaching London 21 December 1813. There, Captain Bristow again reported his discoveries to the Admiralty and leading independent chartmakers.
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Whitaker, "From Norfolk Island to Foveaux Strait; Joseph Foveaux's role in the expansion of whaling and sealing in early nineteenth century Australasia,"
421:, a South Sea whaler owned by William Mellish & Co. of London. The vessel left London on 3 June 1811 and reached Hobart on 30 October. They were reported at
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After three months at home he sailed again for the South Seas as master of the same vessel, departing London 2 April 1805. By 13 August they were at
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resumed sperm whaling, calling at
Norfolk Island for provisions. Captain Bristow seems to have formed a friendship with the commandant of the
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Elizabeth Jones at Bermondsey in London. He departed soon after on another whaling voyage in command of the
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414:(101 tons). She was a twenty-year-old vessel in poor condition and he remained in charge for a year, in the coasting trade.
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as, "certainly more accurate than those before obtained." Bristow also pioneered a new route along the north coast of
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Captain Bristow's new track from
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with seals, and sorry I am that the time and the lumbering state of my ship do not allow me to examine them.
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where yams, bananas and coconuts were obtained by barter with the natives. They did more trading off
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oil, one of the first whalers to exploit the recently discovered right whale fishery in the
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returned to London 19 October 1796 with 185 tuns of sperm whale oil and 6,703 seal skins.
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355:in Indonesia. The cruise also took them to the
647:British Southern Whale Fishery (BSWF) web site
202:His next command was the Enderby-owned whaler
410:Bristow's next command was the Yarmouth brig
529:Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling
299:colonize the islands, by a mixed group of
267:Topographical map of the Auckland Islands.
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219:Discovery of the Auckland Islands
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116:Begbroke
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412:Minerva
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351:to the
305:Moriori
178:Ecuador
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