• John Balleny (c. 1770  – 1857) was the English captain of the sealing schooner Eliza Scott, who led an exploration cruise for the English whaling firm...
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  • Balleny may refer to: John Balleny (d. 1857), an English captain and explorer of the Antarctic Balleny Islands, a series of uninhabited islands in the...
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    The Balleny Islands (66°55′S 163°45′E / 66.917°S 163.750°E / -66.917; 163.750) are a series of uninhabited islands in the Southern Ocean extending...
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    picked up two weeks later by a US sealing schooner, General Jackson. John Balleny in command of the exploration and sealing vessel Eliza Scott (154 tons)...
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    Brown Peak (Sturge Island) (category Volcanoes of the Balleny Islands)
    stratovolcano and the highest point of the Balleny Islands. It is situated on the northern part of Sturge Island. John Balleny discovered Brown Peak in February...
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    Joinville Island group and Adélie Land (138°21′ E). 1839 – John Balleny discovers the Balleny Islands and sights the Sabrina Coast (121° E). 1840 – An expedition...
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    mainland to take mineral and animal samples (66° S) 1838–1839 – John Balleny discovers Balleny Islands (66°55′S 163°45′E / 66.917°S 163.750°E / -66.917;...
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    Enderby Land by John Biscoe in February 1831, discovery of Kemp Land by Peter Kemp in 1833 and discovery of Balleny Islands by John Balleny in 1839. In the...
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    war and unrest, explorers Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, John Biscoe, John Balleny, Charles Wilkes, Jules Dumont d'Urville, and James Clark Ross...
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    Sturge Island (category Islands of the Balleny Islands)
    Brown Peak, the highest point in the Balleny chain. The Balleny Islands were discovered by British mariner John Balleny in 1839. Sturge Island was named after...
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  • Row Island (category Islands of the Balleny Islands)
    which lies just off the southeast end of Young Island in the Balleny Islands. John Balleny assigned the name in 1839 to an island which he reported to...
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  • Borradaile Island (category Islands of the Balleny Islands)
    north-western coast. Borradaile Island was discovered in February 1839 by John Balleny, who named it for W. Borradaile, one of the merchants who united with...
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    between Cape Waldron, at 115° 33' E, and Cape Southard, at 122° 05' E. John Balleny has long been credited with having seen land in March 1839 at about 117°...
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  • These were sent to the Antarctic, under the overall command of Captain John Balleny, to search for undiscovered offshore islands that might host seal colonies...
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  • had notable successes with John Biscoe and John Balleny, who between them discovered Enderby Land, Graham Land, the Balleny Islands and the Sabrina Coast...
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  • Cape McNab (category Headlands of the Balleny Islands)
    in the Balleny Islands of Antarctica. It was named for John McNab, second mate of the schooner Eliza Scott, who made a sketch of the Balleny Islands...
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  • Scott Cone (category Landforms of the Balleny Islands)
    Buckle Island, in the Balleny Islands. Located adjacent to Eliza Cone, the two features appear to have been named after John Balleny's schooner, the Eliza...
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  • successfully returned to London in early 1833. From 1838 to 1839, Captain John Balleny led another expedition to the Southern Ocean. Commanding the Eliza Scott...
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  • Zealand Gazetteer. New Zealand Geographic Board. Retrieved 7 April 2024. John H. Latter, Edwards F. Lloyd, Ian E.M. Smith, and Simon Nathan. () New Zealand's...
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  • Eliza Cone (category Landforms of the Balleny Islands)
    Island, in the Balleny Islands. It is located adjacent to Scott Cone; the two features appear to have been named after John Balleny's schooner, the Eliza...
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    (Bodie & Dawson 1965) with at least one attempt at new naming to Macquarie Balleny Ridge (Colin Summerhayes 1974). The choice of the name McDougall for a...
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    related to subduction; therefore, they are not part of the Ring of Fire. The Balleny Islands, located between Antarctica and New Zealand, are volcanic but their...
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    latitude. The Treaty area covers Antarctica and the archipelagos of the Balleny Islands, Peter I Island, Scott Island, the South Orkney Islands, and the...
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  • Cryptopygus cisantarcticus (category Taxa named by Keith Arthur John Wise)
    in East Antarctica and the surrounding offshore islands, including the Balleny Islands. Cryptopygus cisantarcticus was identified in 1967, when Wise recognised...
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    2005 paper in Polar Biology claimed to have found four specimens off the Balleny Islands in the Southern Ocean, but these were misidentified and were later...
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    Sabrina Island (Antarctica) (category Islands of the Balleny Islands)
    the Balleny Islands of Antarctica and are part of New Zealand's Ross Dependency. Sabrina Island was named after Thomas Freeman's cutter when John Balleny's...
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  • (Ballymoney), Ballaghmore Dunluce (aka Bushmills), Ballealy South, Ballee, Balleny, Ballindam, Ballinderry, Ballinlea Upper, Ballinloughan, Ballintoy Demesne...
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    New Zealand, though could include the similarly claimed and administered Balleny Islands. These claims are in abeyance, in accord with the Antarctic Treaty...
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    known, and reported the discovery "of an Antarctic continent west of the Balleny Islands" on 25 January 1840. That part of Antarctica was later named "Wilkes...
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  • Cayo Sabinal Greater Antilles  Cuba Sable  Nova Scotia  Canada Sabrina Balleny Islands Ross Dependency,  New Zealand Sabula  Iowa  United States Saddle...
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